O'Keefe to Resign as NASA Administrator

lommer writes "The Globe and Mail is carrying a story that NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe may be set to resign as early as Monday to begin a position as chancellor of Louisiana State University. On the one hand this could mean the indroduction of an administrator with an engineering background (O'Keefe is an MPA), on the other hand can we really expect NASA to effect serious changes and find a focused direction with leadership changes every 4 years?" An anonymous reader adds a link to this Florida Today article (also carried by Space.com) which says that "the retired director of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency tops a list of five men that President Bush is considering to take over the space agency."

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'tehdely' = Mike Baehr

[Anonymous Coward]

Exposed as a creep. Seriously, it's sad to see someone as bright as yourself spend so much energy trying to humiliate a fellow slashdotter. Hopefully your just a kid as I'd hate to think an adult would post such filth.

E-Mail sent to LSU students about O'Keefe

[mrbrown1602]

The Chancellor Search Committee has invited the Honorable Sean O'Keefe,
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to
visit the LSU campus for a two-day visit (Wednesday and Thursday,
December 15-16) in connection with our ongoing search for a new chancellor.
Mr. O'Keefe is the only candidate who is scheduled to be interviewed at the
Chancellor Search Committee meeting this week. There will be an open forum
on Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Energy, Coast & Environment Building
Auditorium, during which the entire campus community will have an
opportunity to meet and interact with Mr. O'Keefe.

The Chancellor Search Committee would appreciate receiving comments on Mr.
O'Keefe's candidacy for the chancellor's position, especially from those of
you who have an opportunity to meet with him. Comments should be submitted
to the committee electronically via the address chansearch@lsu.edu. Mr.
O'Keefe's resume is available on-line at http://www.lsu.edu/okeeferesume.

Thank you for your interest and cooperation.

Joel Tohline, Chair
Chancellor Search Committee

Re:What the heck is an MPA?

[Anonymous Coward]

What the heck is an MPA?

Masters of
Public
Administration

I think you mean that O'Keefe is an MBA.

Idiot

Re:It's refreshing to see someone leave for money.

[ZiakII]

don't think thats exactly completally true when the same thing has happend with Clinton copied strait from cnn.com

The immigration status of household help employed by prospective high-level government officials has been an issue in the past decade, beginning in 1993 when former President Bill Clinton's first pick for attorney general, Zoe Baird, was forced to withdraw after admitting she employed two undocumented workers and did not pay required employee taxes for them.

O'Keefe interview at LSU

[Anonymous Coward]

Note: A local news station is reporting that O'Keefe will be interviewed on Thursday by LSU for the chancellor's position.

Re:Damn! He was the only reason I voted for Bush!

[Malfourmed]

don't know what O'Keefe has to do with MPA

MPA stands for Master of Public Administration as O'Keef's biography confirms.

Re:NASA has competition

[Anonymous Coward]

While science is nice and all, NASA's mission is:
To understand and protect our home planet, To explore the universe and search for life, To inspire the next generation of explorers. . . as only NASA can

It seems to me that going to Mars helps fulfill their mission more than helping the ESA with space telescopes. NASA isn't only science. To think that it should be is very arrogant.

AOL keyword: excuse

[infinite jester]

True, except that in the case of Zoe Baird, her nanny problem was the actual reason for her withdrawal from consideration. For Kerik, it's a smokescreen. His real problems involve shady business dealings, a 1998 arrest warrant , and mob ties , among other things.

Re:What the heck is an MPA?

[jalefkowit]

What the heck is an MPA? I think you mean that O'Keefe is an MBA.

No, MPA is correct -- "Master of Public Administration". It's what many undergraduate poli sci majors get when they grow up (if they are not seduced by the siren song of a JD).

From O'Keefe's bio:

Sean O'Keefe earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1977 from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and his Master of Public Administration degree in 1978 from The Maxwell School.

Delta IV Heavy

[Artifakt]

The Delta Four launch scheduled for Saturday had to be postponed. The good news is the next window isn't 2 months away, it's Tues. afternoon (the 21st) if they decide to go for it. The D4 Heavy version is the first version of the D4 to use three main booster rockets, forming a booster theoretically capable of servicing the ISS at much less cost to orbit than the shuttle. While the "multi-barrel" design is just becoming operational, regular Delta IVs with the same engine have entered successful service in 2003.
The Delta IV Heavy is staged from Nasa's pad 37B, which last saw service as the launchpad for the Saturn 1B Apollo missions.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d310/041201del ta4heavy.html/

http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/de lta4/delta4.htm/

The Delta 4 Heavy supports payloads of up to about 50,000 pounds to low-Earth orbit (i.e. the International Space Station). It can put about 29,000 pounds into Geosyncronous orbit 22,300 miles above the planet, or 22,000 pounds to the moon, or about 17,500 pounds to Mars.

The IV Heavy's possible successors, clustering more first stage rockets, include a 7 tube design with MORE lift than the Saturn 5.