Among other changes, Vanessa Wyche, who previously led Johnson Space Center, has been named NASA's acting associate administrator.
NASA’s top officials never received an offer from Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring home two US astronauts marooned in space earlier than planned, the agency’s former deputy administrator told Bloomberg.
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"This is not the situation that is conducive to expanding our leadership in human spaceflight": U.S. Rep. George Whitesides, D-California.
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Vanessa Wyche, who has led NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston since 2021, is being promoted to the third highest-ranking executive within NASA. Wyche was named acting associate administrator on Monday.
NASA in a Wednesday news release revealed that associate administrator Jim Free—a major figure in the Artemis moon mission program and a vocal defender of the agency’s lunar exploration efforts—will step down, effective Saturday. The Artemis III lunar landing is tentatively scheduled for mid-2027.
Politics may have been a reason why NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore got their mission extended from eight days to eight months. According to Rudy Ridolfi, a former Space System Commander in the US military, Joe Biden's constant clashes with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk may have influenced NASA's decision regarding Williams's mission.
The US space agency is losing four senior officials, insiders say, including a key defender of the Artemis missions Nasa is losing four key senior officials close to its flagship moon programme, according to people familiar with the changes,
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