Jeff has been involved in aerospace journalism since the mid 1990s. Prior to joining Aviation Week, Jeff served as managing editor of Launchspace magazine and the International Space Industry Report. He has been the editor and chief of Aviation Week's Aerospace Daily & Defense Report since 2007 and has been a regular contributor to Aviation Week magazine. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
Frank Morring, Jr. (Washington), Jefferson Morris (Washington)
Spacewalkers on the upcoming STS-122/1E International Space Station assembly mission likely will give a full inspection to the solar array joint hobbling power production, now that the ISS crew has recovered time lost on the last mission. Barring problems on the final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the current “stage” between shuttle visits, the Expedition 16 crew was on track to support a launch of the space shuttle Atlantis from the beginning of its Dec. 6-13 window.
Completion of another spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) Nov. 20 leaves only two more hurdles before space shuttle Atlantis can deliver the European Space Agency's long-awaited Columbus laboratory module to orbit. Derek Hassmann, ISS flight director for the Expedition 16 increment, said completion of the extravehicular activity (EVA 11) kept the Expedition 16 crew on track to recover time lost to the emergency solar array repair during the STS-120/10A assembly mission on shuttle Discovery earlier this month.
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) questioned NASA's plans for supplying the International Space Station (ISS) in the gap between the planned 2010 retirement of the space shuttle and the debut of the Orion, which under current budgets will happen no earlier than March 2015, during a hearing in Washington Nov. 15.
