Administrator Update

Lost in Space: Months After Obama’s Inauguration, NASA Is Still Without a Chief, Fox News
“Not all experts are troubled about the agency’s fate in the interim. Former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe, who preceded Griffin, told FOXNews.com that Scolese is an “extraordinarily competent guy” who has a deep knowledge of engineering and of the “pulse and the rhythm of the agency.” “He’s got it — he’s going to be in fine shape,” said O’Keefe. “It’s not like the wheels are going to come off the cart.”
We think: NASA needs a leader, opinion, Orlando Sentinel
“With the federal government now borrowing trillions of dollars to prop up the economy, it’s understandable that Mr. Obama would weigh carefully the value for taxpayers in every federal program. But if big changes are coming in the space program, the price of delaying them, in money and time, could be steep. If the Obama administration intends to switch rocket designs for Constellation, for example, it should cut off work on Ares as soon as possible.”
Whither NASA?, Achenblog, Washington Post
“Here’s a name to add to the NASA Administrator-to-be Rumor Mill: Rep. Bart Gordon, head of a House science committee that oversees NASA. I asked him the other day if he was going to be administrator, and he said he already has the best job in the world and isn’t going to trade it in for another. But I’d still keep his name on the list. He didn’t outright deny that he might be the next boss on the ninth floor at NASA headquarters.”