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.
The latest attempt by sympathetic Senate lawmakers to add $1 billion to NASA's budget request to help the agency recover from the lingering financial effects of the Columbia accident and Hurricane Katrina has failed in conference with the House, according to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), one of the amendment's co-sponsors.
In January Microsoft plans to release the first version of Microsoft ESP - a software package allowing developers to create their own immersive 3-D flight simulations that the company hopes will eventually become the standard package with which military, government and commercial users will develop training programs.
Apollo 9 astronaut Russell "Rusty" Schweickart criticized NASA's report to Congress on its search for potentially dangerous near-Earth objects (NEO) during testimony before a House Science subcommittee last week, and renewed his call for the U.S. government to assign responsibility for developing NEO deflection plans.
