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.
EMBOLDENED: President Barack Obama met with former astronaut Charles Bolden at the White House May 18 to discuss Bolden’s possible nomination to be the next administrator of NASA. A former major general in the U.S. Marine Corps, Bolden is a veteran of four space shuttle flights, including the 1990 flight that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as two missions as commander. Bolden flew more than 100 sorties into North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in the A-6A Intruder in 1972-1973.
Frank Morring, Jr. (Johnson Space Center), Jefferson Morris (Kennedy Space Center)
The Hubble Space Telescope should be in good shape for at least five more years of service—barring mishap—after the long-delayed final space shuttle mission to service the orbiting observatory achieved two of its top three objectives in the first of five spacewalks.
