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.
This year NASA is considering releasing a third major broad area announcement (BAA) related to its space exploration plans, according to officials with the agency's Exploration Systems office. The new BAA would include the three major areas, according to Jim Nehman, the office's deputy associate administrator for development programs: exploration systems research and technology, biological and physical research, and space nuclear power and propulsion.
More than seven years after it launched with NASA's Cassini orbiter, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Huygens probe touched down on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan Jan. 14 on what appears to be a patch of mud, according to program officials.
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said he is not overly concerned by the estimated $450 million in congressional earmarks contained in the agency's fiscal year 2005 budget, which would redirect funding away from the Bush Administration's space priorities toward other projects. "I don't think that's going to crowd out a lot of things," O'Keefe said during a press conference at Kennedy Space Center in Florida Jan. 14.
