Ashes to Ashes
June 9th, 2005 - 10:46 pm
Big things afoot at NASA:
A massive reorganization has begun at NASA. NASA Administrator Mike Griffin has begun the process by sending out formal notices to more than 50 senior NASA managers aprising them of pending changes in their job titles.
One person has already resigned. Associate Administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, Adm. Craig Steidle, tendered his resignation today effective 24 June 2005.
Changes will occur across all of the agency’s activities – except human space flight – those changes come later after both the STS-114 and STS-121 missions have been completed.
Waaaay past due, if you ask me.
(Hat tip: Gen-you-wine rocket scientist Ed Lambert.)
It’s too early to say, really. He is going much further with his restructuring of the agency than did Sean O’Keefe. Unfortunately, some of his actions and expressed intentions reflect a desire to resurrect NASA’s glory days rather than doing the *right* thing — for instance, midwifing the private space industry and conducting the VSE in such a way as to establish infrastructure for future activities.