Friday’s CSExtra finds more congressional concern over NASA’s decision to reassign Constellation Program manager Jeff Hanley. A small bipartisan collection of lawmakers calls on NASA’s inspector general to look into the matter. Meanwhile, the latest in a new generation of Global Positioning System satellites rockets into orbit Thursday night. NASA imagery helps gauge the leak [...]

  The technology and commercially themed exploration strategy outlined by President Obama earlier this year would mean the launching of new NASA robotic spacecraft at a rapid clip to set the stage for the human exploration of deep space. They would join robotic missions already launched by NASA for scientific discovery. Space agency officials outlined [...]

Source: Space News Jeff Hanley, the top manager of NASA’s marked-for-cancellation Constellation program at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, has stepped down to become associate director for strategic capabilities at JSC, according to NASA officials. In his new position, Hanley will be tasked with retaining “as many of JSC’s human space flight core [...]

Source: The Houston Chronicle It was during long flights to the Middle East for goodwill visits to American troops that former astronauts Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and James Lovell hatched a plan to step out of the pages of history with a mission to change its course once more. The carefully calculated decision in March [...]

Source: The Wall Street Journal Congress and NASA continue to spar over the agency’s priorities, even as new budget projections and agency personnel shifts announced Wednesday riled lawmakers who vowed to block White House proposals to outsource manned missions to commercial operators. Leaders of the House Committee on Science and Technology blasted NASA chief Charles [...]