Doug Loverro, NASA's chief of human spaceflight, resigned from his post after less than a year on the job, the agency announced.
No crewed mission has launched to orbit from the United States since NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in 2011. Since then, the space agency has relied completely on Russian Soyuz rockets and spacecraft to get its astronauts to and from the ISS.
If all goes well with Demo-2, SpaceX will be clear to start flying operational missions to and from the orbiting lab for NASA. Elon Musk's company holds a $2.6 billion contract with the agency's Commercial Crew Program for six such operational flights.The division's longtime leader, Bill Gersteinmaier, was reassigned in July 2019. Bowersox then took over as acting HEO chief until Loverro was announced as the successor in October.
The top HEO job comes with high expectations and a lot of pressure. NASA is working to land two astronauts, a tight timeline laid out by the administration of President Donald Trump just last year. "Loverro hit the ground running this year and has made significant progress in his time at NASA. His leadership of HEO has moved us closer to accomplishing our goal of landing the first woman and the next man on the moon in 2024. Loverro has dedicated more than four decades of his life in service to our country, and we thank him for his service and contributions to the agency," NASA officials wrote today in an emailed statement about Loverro's departure.
"Next week will mark the beginning of a new era in human spaceflight with the launch of NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station," the statement added."We have full confidence in the work Kathy Lueders and her entire Commercial Crew team have done to bring us here.
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