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.
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe has ordered the leaders of the agency's field centers to begin dialogues with employees on the findings of the Aldridge commission report, which recommends a number of sweeping changes at NASA to help it carry out its new vision for space exploration.
NASA's authorization bill for fiscal year 2005 urges the agency to give private industry responsibility for flying an unmanned probe to the moon within three years, according to Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), who introduced the legislation June 17. Such a mission would "ensure America remains in the lead in understanding and utilizing this body," Brownback said while chairing a hearing of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space in Washington June 17.
An independent commission is recommending that NASA give private industry more responsibility for the agency's "operational, mundane" needs such as access to low-Earth orbit, while the agency retains control of "inherently governmental" tasks such as human space flight.
