...the space agency to change the ways it recruits and retains its brightest scientests and engineers. Administrator Sean O'Keefe warns that NASA faces dangerous shortages because of looming retirements and fewer college graduates with skills it...
...Wednesday the orbiter exhibited no problems during its 16-day mission suggesting the crew's lives were threatened. Sean O'Keefe, who recently took over as head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, also offered assurances that...
...launching the space shuttle Atlantis sometime between March 11 and April 6 may be too lofty a target. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe will have the final word on timing, but he will be advised by a task force that will review whether the shuttle improvements...
...Columbia debris landed to learn why the nation's oldest space shuttle disintegrated just minutes from home. NASA chief Sean O'Keefe named a former Navy admiral to oversee an independent review of the accident, and said investigators initially would...
...home. "She carried as wonderful a group of human beings as you could ever hope to assemble." NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe told a crowd of about 7,000. "We miss them more than words can describe." The ceremony at Kennedy Space Center...
...The Day of Remembrance falls three days before the first anniversary of the Columbia disaster. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe plans to make it an annual late-January event, coming as close as it does to all three of the nation's space program...
...probe of itself. In a letter to Ret. Admiral Harold Gehman, who heads the investigative panel, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said he was "exercising an overabundance of caution" by changing the board's operating charter. He urged Gehman...
...we need to set for ourselves, ought to be higher than anything else anybody else would levy on us," Administrator Sean O'Keefe said during a visit to Kennedy Space Center. "We've got to not only focus on the findings and recommendations...
...told him it did -- he was not going to Michigan. LSU athletic director Skip Bertman said Miles and LSU chancellor Sean O'Keefe already have worked out a contract "they're happy with," but it has not been signed. Wearing a purple tie, standing...
...Spacewalking astronauts were scheduled to install new batteries and instruments in 2006. But NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe canceled those plans in January, citing safety concerns following the Columbia shuttle accident in February 2003 that...
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