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's renewed Teacher in Space program will feature "educator mission specialists" to interest students in space and help replenish NASA's workforce, Administrator Sean O'Keefe said April 16 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. In his first major public address on the future of the agency April 12, O'Keefe announced that Astronaut Barbara Morgan would fly as the first educator mission specialist on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) sometime after the station's core elements are complete in 2004 (DAILY, April 15).
Canard Rotor/Wing (CR/W) aircraft such as the Boeing Co.'s Dragonfly unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) could one day complement tiltrotor aircraft such as the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey on certain military missions, according to Dragonfly Program Manager Steve Bass. The concepts take opposite approaches to solving the same problem - combining the flexibility of a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) rotorcraft with the speed and range of a fixed-wing aircraft.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Orbital Express program is gearing up for a critical design review (CDR) this winter, in anticipation of a six- to 12-month on-orbit demonstration to begin in fiscal year 2006. The $100 million program is an Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) aimed at developing architectures and technologies for refueling, upgrading, and reconfiguring spacecraft while they are in orbit.
