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 is trying to strengthen the boom being developed to inspect the space shuttle in orbit to ensure it can handle the structural loads anticipated during flight, according to Michael Kostelnik, deputy associate administrator for the International Space Station (ISS) and space shuttle programs.
On June 18, NASA plans to release an announcement of opportunity (AO) to solicit proposals from industry for the science instruments to be carried on the agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which is scheduled to launch in 2008 as a prelude to human landings. The LRO would map the lunar surface in unprecedented detail and gather information about natural resources such as possible ice deposits (DAILY, Feb. 5).
NASA's Office of Exploration Systems has selected Florida's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) to lead an independent study of the agency's research and development (R&D) portfolio to determine which efforts best support the nation's emerging vision for space exploration. The initiatives to be examined will come from the Advanced Space Technology Program (ASTP), which contains most of the medium- and long-term R&D work acquired by the exploration office following its establishment earlier this year.
