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.
Establishing safety and the perception of safety among members of the public will be crucial to the growth and success of the space tourism industry, according to a panel of former astronauts and space entrepreneurs. Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist, said that in his experience roughly half the people in a given room say they are willing to take a suborbital space flight for $50,000 or less.
Carl O'Berry, the former executive chairman of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, said he is pleased with the progress the group has made in its first year of operations. Formally stood up in September of 2004, the NCOIC began as a group of 28 companies dedicated to creating industry standards and practices that will make their products interoperable and enable network-centric operations.
Remote sensing imagery analysts with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency still are on the ground in New Orleans providing tailored maps and other products in support of the ongoing efforts to recover from Hurricane Katrina, according to NGA. The agency first sent field analysts to the region in advance of the storm on Aug. 26, marking the first time NGA personnel were deployed to an area in advance of a disaster. At the height of relief operations there were nearly 40 NGA analysts in the area.
