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.
Hurricane Ivan, which passed to the east of NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, has done "little or no damage" at either location, according to a NASA spokeswoman. Michoud, Stennis, and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville reopened Sept. 17, with Stennis and Marshall adopting a liberal leave policy, according to Melissa Mathews at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft (UCAR) program offers the U.S. Army a chance to preserve its edge in helicopter technology in the absence of the canceled RAH-66 Comanche, according to Program Manager Don Woodbury.
Eliminating sources of debris on the space shuttle's external tank remains the biggest challenge facing NASA as it attempts to return the orbiter to flight next March or April, according to the Stafford-Covey Return to Flight Task Group. "Probably the long pole in the tent right now would be the tank," Task Group Co-Chair Tom Stafford said during a teleconference Sept. 16.
