ARC Transtion Update

Newsmakers, Science

“[NASA Administrator] Michael Griffin and I talked before the holidays and agreed that he should have the ability to pick a center director of his own choosing,” says Hubbard, whose replacement at Ames will reportedly be astronomer and retired Air Force Brigadier General Simon P. Worden. Wesley Huntress, director of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., says that Ames “blossomed” under Hubbard’s 3-year directorship: “NASA loses a very good man.”

NASA budget emphasizes space exploration, C|Net

“We believe Ames is healthy,” Christensen said. “We have direction and momentum…but we’re not out of the woods yet. “We’ve been restructuring our organization to try to align with missions out of NASA, but it’s not simple because we have been a research center.”