Human spaceflight the key for new NASA boss
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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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As a new crew prepares to lift off tomorrow for the international space station, NASA officials say they are less worried than they were two weeks ago about problems with its oxygen generator and growing shortages of food and spare parts.
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WASHINGTON (Dec. 15, 2004) - The Coalition for Space Exploration expresses its deep appreciation to NASA Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe for his strong personal leadership during one of the most critical periods
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - For the international space station's newest crew member, his first week aboard the orbiting outpost was anything but routine.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The departure of NASA&#39;s boss comes at a challenging time as the space agency struggles to ditch the mentality that lost Columbia and get its remaining shuttles flying again, while aiming for the moon and Mars.
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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NASA, the American space agency responsible for putting a man on the moon but who also lost seven astronauts in its 2003 Columbia Shuttle voyage and seven astronauts in its 1986 Challenger take-off, says the first space shuttle mission since the disaster
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Two top NASA officials, including the man in charge of developing new spacecraft for future missions to the moon and Mars, plan to leave the space agency, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
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The abrupt resignation of Sean O&#39;Keefe will saddle NASA&#39;s next admnistrator with unfinished business: struggling to return
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Not content to simply stand in one place, NASA's mechanical astronaut has found not one, but two new bodies that will allow it&nbsp;to move across land and space.
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NASA has named William Parsons, a veteran manager who led the space shuttle program's return to flight after the 2003 Columbia accident, to run the Kennedy Space Center launch site.
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The head of the US space agency, NASA, has resigned after a tumultuous three years in office that included the loss of a space shuttle and its seven astronauts.
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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe plans to resign as head of the U.S. space agency, an official familiar with the decision said on Sunday.
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NASA's departing chief, Sean O'Keefe, on Friday defended his decision to pursue a robotic repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, days after a panel of scientists said a shuttle mission would be better.
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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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The head of the nation&#39;s space program will interview for the job as chancellor of LSU this week. NASA Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe, who has ties to Louisiana, has been recruited by LSU officials
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While NASA is best known for putting a man on the moon, the U.S. space agency will now help keep plant and animal species on Earth.