Keith’s note: Former NASA GRC Center Director Ray Lugo is now Director of the Florida Space Institute. No press release issued that I can find.

Keith’s 15 Nov 4:00 pm EST note: NASA will announce soon that Glenn Research Center Director Ray Lugo and Johnson Space Center Director Mike Coats are leaving their respective positions. All-hands meetings have reportedly been scheduled for tomorrow (Friday) at JSC and GRC. As was reported on NASAWatch in August, these departures, which will be described as “retirement”, are part of a larger attempt by NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden to […]

Cleveland’s Glenn Research Center seeking stability with uncertainties ahead for NASA, Cleveland Plain Dealer “During an eight-week stretch this summer, for instance, a prominent NASA blogger reported that Lugo was about to be replaced (he wasn’t), and a former NASA administrator advising Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign warned that the space agency was planning to scrap all human space flight work and eliminate its 244 jobs at Glenn. (Both NASA and […]