- NASA’s head of human spaceflight, Doug Loverro, resigned just days before NASA’s first crewed launch in nearly a decade.
- Loverro told colleagues he was resigning due to a decision he made earlier in the year.
- SpaceX’s Crew Dragon launch will still proceed as scheduled.
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We’re literally just days away from NASA’s first manned launch of a spacecraft from US soil since the Space Shuttle era. It’s a massive event, with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon taking a pair of NASA astronauts to the International Space Station and, if all goes well, reaching the finish line of the Commercial Crew program.
It would be hard to imagine a single soul at NASA not wanting to be part of this huge milestone, and even harder to imagine one of the people who helped make it possible choosing to leave the space agency. That’s exactly what Doug Loverro, the head of NASA’s human spaceflight efforts, is doing. Loverro resigned from his post as Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations.
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