NASA human spaceflight chief Doug Loverro resigns on eve of historic SpaceX launch
Source: Space.com
By Mike Wall an hour ago
The timing is surprising.
Doug Loverro, NASA's chief of human spaceflight, resigned from his post Monday (May 18) after less than a year on the job, the agency announced today (May 19).
Loverro's resignation as Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate is a stunning development, as the agency counts down to the first orbital crew launch from U.S. soil in nearly a decade, which will take place on May 27.
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Though NASA described Loverro's departure as a resignation, Politico reports that there may be more to the story. Two industry sources told the outlet that Loverro was actually pushed out over disagreements with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Bridenstine made no mention of the shakeup today in remarks to the National Space Council, which is led by Vice President Mike Pence.
Loverro's departure continues a string of recent shakeups at the top of HEO.
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BamaRefugee
(3,476 posts)SledDriver
(2,049 posts)n/t
Delmette2.0
(4,143 posts)Ligyron
(7,592 posts)But now if it does explode, or if anything goes wrong, they will blame it on his "incompetence" and perhaps even try to claim he sabotaged it and then ran away.
You just watch...
relayerbob
(6,510 posts)The trumpers want to grab full credit over it, and tout an increasingly deranged Elon Musk as their hero - "liberating CA"
Zorro
(15,691 posts)Bridenstine is a Tea Party hack.
It may very well be that Loverro assesses the risk to be too high for the upcoming launch, which put him in conflict with Bridenstine's and Trump's push to return to space as soon as possible.
ewagner
(18,964 posts)If he assessed the risk as too high it would be an embarrassment to the trump team...so they have to find someone who will assess the risk as "acceptable"....which could be very bad.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,725 posts)In order to score political points
tinrobot
(10,848 posts)A GOP apparatchik in charge of the space program.
Elon Musk in charge of the rocket.
Then, suddenly, the true expert resigns.
Scary. I seriously hope nobody gets hurt.
ancianita
(35,813 posts)Calista241
(5,584 posts)but they don't go into further detail. I imagine we'll know more in the coming days.
Maxheader
(4,366 posts)This close to launching americuns into space for the first time,
in a long time...New tech...new ship...
And I especially don't like something like this happening where leadership
is nonexistent from the whiter house handjobs...
"National Space Council, which is led by Vice President Mike Pence."
ashredux
(2,593 posts)hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,880 posts)Trump has quite thoroughly promoted know-nothing sycophants to important positions, allowing them to then force people with real knowledge out. Rebuilding competence in the federal government will be a monumental task.
noneof_theabove
(410 posts)Executive Order #1
All EOs by the convicted con artist Donald J Trump are hereby null and void,
and reverted to the status before his EO.
Please contact us if you want your old position back.
--Joe Biden
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)about space, rockets, launches and science. Experts they are.
not fooled
(5,791 posts)with Challenger, launching despite experts' concerns.
red don needs good publicity to distract from all of his catastrophes. I hope for the sake of the crew everything goes well.
Talitha
(6,479 posts)cos dem
(895 posts)There's not room for competency in this mal-administration.
Drum
(8,917 posts)machoneman
(3,952 posts)Hey, Trumpy is killing a hundred thousand already....what's a few astronauts?