Tag: Robert Lightfoot
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Acting NASA administrator’s parting words: Accept risk wisely, with ‘eyes wide open’
Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot is dwarfed by a chart showing Earth, the moon and Mars at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. “I realize it’s not to scale,” Lightfoot said. “It is to scale, though, in priority.” (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — NASA should rethink its approach to the risks of…
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NASA could extend space station stays as hedge against commercial crew delays
File photo of acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani NASA is working with the Russian space agency to potentially extend crew stays on the International Space Station, the agency’s acting administrator said last week, as a cushion against expected delays in the development of commercial crew capsules by Boeing and SpaceX. Robert Lightfoot,…
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NASA’s acting administrator says he’ll retire in April, adding to power vacuum
Acting NASA administrator Robert Lightfoot, shown here in a 2015 photo, says he’ll retire in April. (NASA / MSFC Photo / Fred Deaton) Robert Lightfoot, who has been serving as NASA’s acting administrator since the start of the Trump administration, says he’ll be retiring at the end of next month. His departure after more than…
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Robert Lightfoot, NASA’s longest-serving interim administrator, to retire
NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot testifies to the House Science Committee’s subcommittee on space March 7. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot, a rocket propulsion engineer and career civil servant who has led the space agency since the beginning of the Trump administration, said Monday he will retire from the space agency at…
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Pence calls for a return to the moon as a stepping stone to Mars
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Vice President Mike Pence speaks Thursday at the first meeting of the newly-convened National Space Council. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Vice President Mike Pence, chairing a revived National Space Council, said Thursday the United States will once again send astronauts to the moon, using Earth’s satellite as a critical…
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NASA rules out crew on first SLS flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of NASA’s Space Launch System. Credit: NASA NASA managers have ruled out putting a crew on board an Orion capsule atop the agency’s huge Space Launch System rocket for the gargantuan booster’s maiden flight in 2019, citing technical risks and higher costs, up to as much…
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NASA rules out crew on first SLS flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of NASA’s Space Launch System. Credit: NASA NASA managers have ruled out putting a crew on board an Orion capsule atop the agency’s huge Space Launch System rocket for the gargantuan booster’s maiden flight in 2019, citing technical risks and higher costs, up to as much…
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NASA studying whether to add astronauts to first launch of new super booster
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of the Orion spacecraft near the moon. Credit: NASA NASA managers said Friday they hope to know within a month or so whether it might be feasible — or advisable — to put two astronauts on board the first test flight of a huge 322-foot-tall Space…