NASA Chief Is Taking Off
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Named to head NASA by President Bush in December 2001, Sean O&#39;Keefe acknowledged he had no experience in astronautics. His management style aimed at practical economy.
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NASA chief Michael Griffin has met with Chinese space officials and toured facilities during the first visit to China by a US space agency head, his staff said.
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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe will resign this week, a government official said Sunday, and a spokesman for Louisiana State University said O'Keefe is a leading candidate to become the university's chancellor.
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NASA administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe will resign his post, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Monday. NASA sources told CNN on Sunday that O&#39;Keefe would announce his resignation Monday, but later said the announcement would come Tuesday.
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While the high-profile experience and leadership style of NASA Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe are impressive to those seeking a new chancellor for Louisiana State University, he is sure to face
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NASA&#39;s next leader must wholeheartedly back the US president&#39;s space plan - which focuses on human space flight - says departing boss Sean O&#39;Keefe.
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The space program Sean O&#39;Keefe is leaving behind - probably before the second anniversary of the shuttle accident that will define his tenure - is far different from the agency he stepped into three years ago.
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WASHINGTON -- The Associated Press quotes a government official as saying NASA Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe will resign this week and a spokesman for Louisiana State University said O&#39;Keefe is a leading candidate to become the university&#39;s chancellor.
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Astronaut Lisa M. Nowak has been terminated from NASA, officials said today and will return to active duty in the Navy, working with the Chief of Air Training in Corpus Christi, Tex.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA is finally ready to fly its first mission of the year, with space shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts scheduled for liftoff on Friday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Sean O&#39;Keefe resigned as NASA administrator on Monday, saying he is leaving the position he has held for three years to pursue better economic opportunity for his family.
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A U.S. rocket entrepreneur on Thursday   joined the ranks attempting to get space tourism off the   ground.
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Columbia native and former astronaut Charles Bolden is on the short list to replace Sean OâKeefe, who resigned Monday after three tumultuous years running the nationâs space program.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA asked an astronaut aboard the international space station to exercise vigorously Friday, hoping the rapid movement would jostle a half-retracted solar wing that refuses to fold up properly.
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WASHINGTON -- NASA&#39;s director has turned in his resignation, ending three years marked by a space tragedy and extra scrutiny of the space agency.
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Marion C. Blakey, administrator of commercial space transportation for the Federal Aviation Administration, speaks with reporters following a briefing at the XCOR hangar at Mojave, Calif.
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Retired Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr. is proud his name is among a handful being mentioned as the next head of the US space agency.