Ares Manager Steve Cook Resigns From NASA

FleaPlus writes "Steve Cook, project manager for the Ares I-X, Ares I, and Ares V rockets, announced that he will resign from NASA MSFC after 19 years at the agency, leaving for an executive position at Dynetics, Inc. This raises doubts about the future of the Ares program, which has been plagued with development problems and massive cost/schedule overruns since its inception. Steve Cook also oversaw the (since discredited) 2005 ESAS study which scrapped NASA's prior plans to adapt already-existing commercial rockets for human/beyond-LEO exploration in favor of internally developing the Ares rockets."

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Back out of Plan Affirmative-Action

[Anonymous Coward]

Out of the notable space agencies (in Japan, the European Union, Russia, and the USA), only NASA utilizes affirmative action. Highly unqualified African-American or Hispanic graduates from shockingly horrible universities like Texas Southern University are hired before any European-American or Asian-American holding a graduate degree from Caltech.

The problems at NASA coincided with the rise of affirmative action, starting in the mid 1970s. Note that the missions to the moon were all done prior to the onset of affirmative action.

Even the Russian space engineers -- hampered by budget cuts and an authoritarian society -- design more reliable spacecraft than the American engineers.

To understand the direness of the problem, note the infamous problem that arose when some NASA departments failed to convert between metric units and English units. This utter stupidity completely wrecked an important mission to Mars.

Re:Back out of Plan Affirmative-Action

[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[BountyX]

WTF? Ares has a manager? P2P my ass! I'm using one swarm for now and on...