Space Center Director Moving Amid Shake-Up
In an abrupt shake-up prompted by the space shuttle Columbia disaster, the chief of Kennedy Space Center is being moved to another NASA installation to strengthen its engineering department for the shuttle fleet’s eventual return to flight.
Roy Bridges, a former shuttle pilot who has directed the space center for six years, said that NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe asked him this week to take charge of the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
“We are going to be looking at the Columbia accident report to see how we might bring some independent engineering talent to bear on the return to flight,” Bridges said.
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