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Does This Count As Space News?
NASA boss Sean O'Keefe might be resigning soon.

In April, a study of the post-Columbia effort to change NASA's culture found many problems remaining and space agency employees still afraid to speak up abou safety.
"The leadership's got to take it on, starting with me," O'Keefe said then.

More recently, O'Keefe has been under fire for his insistence that it's too risky to send astronauts to repair the popular Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA also is struggling to return its aging shuttles, grounded after the Columbia accident, to spaceflight. The agency has been unable to make crucial improvements recommended by the Columbia accident board.

O'Keefe has embraced a new space effort, envisioned by President Bush, that would send manned missions to the moon and Mars. O'Keefe taught business administration and management at Syracuse and Pennsylvania State universities before becoming secretary of the Navy under the first President Bush. He became deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget under the current President Bush before taking over NASA in January 2002. He is from New Orleans, about an hour's drive from Baton Rouge.

And so it goes.
Hardly news until it happens. :)

- Art Neuro