Keith’s note: NASA Advisory Council Chair Steve Squyres has resigned his position telling people in an email “I’ve simply been finding it too difficult to balance my responsibilities and meet them all well, and something had to give.” One would expect that NASA would begin looking for a new chair for the NAC. Steve was unusual when it came to NAC chairs. Usually the chair is someone who is retired […]

Conferees OK $17.8 Billion For NASA, Aviation Week “I have had the opportunity to engage in conversation with individuals in the Office of Management and Budget [OMB],” said Steven Squyres of Cornell University, the Mars expert who headed up the planetary science decadal survey at the National Academy of Sciences, when asked if OMB is willing to commit to a joint Mars program with ESA. “In those conversations I have […]

A Post-Mission Conversation With NASA NEEMO Aquanaut Steve Squyres “Cowing: Let’s go back to what we were talking about several weeks ago before you began your NEEMO mission – the idea that being there – and doing it as – opposed to intellectualizing things … Squyres: … yea, it is really different when you actually have to do it!”

NASA Announces Steven Squyres as New NASA Advisory Council Chairman “NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Cornell University Astronomy Professor Steven W. Squyres, as chairman of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC), an assembly of experts from various fields that offer guidance and policy advice to the administrator of America’s space agency.Squyres’ scientific research focuses on the robotic exploration of planetary surfaces, the history of water on Mars, geophysics and tectonics […]

A Pre-Mission Conversation With NASA NEEMO Aquanaut Steve Squyres “I had a chance to chat with NEEMO 15 crew member Steve Squyres today as he waits out some bad weather before his 13 day underwater mission begins. According to Steve its looking like Thursday before they can “splash down” and begin their mission.”