O'Keefe to quit this week

[nashville_brook]

http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/spacestoryN1212OKEEFENU0.htm

Ex-missile defense chief tops list of NASA contenders

BY JOHN KELLY
FLORIDA TODAY

CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe will resign this week, and the retired director of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency tops a list of five men that President Bush is considering to take over the space agency, FLORIDA TODAY has learned.

Louisiana State University is aggressively recruiting O'Keefe to become the Baton Rouge, La., school's next chancellor. O'Keefe said he is interested in the job, and school officials told FLORIDA TODAY a deal could be made this week.

Meanwhile, a White House team is weighing five candidates and plans to announce O'Keefe's departure and pick a new NASA administrator by Thursday, according to a source familiar with the selection process.

Leading the president's list: Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, who retired in September after three years as the director of the United States' effort to develop a system to shield the country and its troops from a missile attack. The other four men under consideration are former Congressman Robert Walker and former shuttle astronauts Ron Sega, Charles Bolden and Robert Crippen.


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just another take on the O'Keefe thing. seems weird to me that of all the people in the world, LSU NEEDS O'Keefe this badly!

[socrates42]

1. hoooray!

As a science teacher who knows a little bit about his performance,...this recent issue of the astronauts having to cut back on food and water because of his unbelievably dumb resupply decisions was the final straw for me.

let's find someone who understands that NASA is designed for risk-taking,...not sucking thumbs.

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1064407