Le directeur des sciences à la NASA démissionne brutalement

[Invité]

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/Resign03268.xml

NASA Science Chief Alan Stern Resigns

By Frank Morring, Jr.

Alan Stern, NASA's hard-charging associate administrator for science, abruptly resigned from the agency March 25.

"Yesterday I offered and Mike Griffin reluctantly accepted my resignation as associate administrator," Stern wrote in an e-mail message sent to Science Mission Directorate staffers today. "Mike will shortly be naming an interim AA. I will remain at NASA for a few weeks."

Stern confirmed his resignation to Aviation Week, but declined immediate comment. In the message to his staff he said it had been a "privilege" to work at the agency, and praised Administrator Griffin for the job he has done with them.

"Mike and I remain on good terms," he wrote. "He remains in my eyes the best administrator NASA has ever had."

Stern joined NASA on April 2, 2007. He has ruffled feathers with fiscal belt-tightening and delays in the robotic Mars exploration program.

Griffin announced that Ed Weiler, director of Goddard Space Flight Center, and a former associate administrator for science, will return in an interim role.

[Mustard]

A-t-on une idée de la raison de cette démission ?
Privée ou désaccord ?

[Invité]

Il a refusé de commenter pour l'instant, mais c'est vrai que le budget science de la NASA n'est pas à la fête en ce moment.
Le communiqué de presse de la NASA :
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/mar/HQ_08088_SMD_AA_change.html

[Skyboy]

Il a refusé de commenter pour l'instant, mais c'est vrai que le budget science de la NASA n'est pas à la fête en ce moment.
Le communiqué de presse de la NASA :
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/mar/HQ_08088_SMD_AA_change.html

Ouais, mais sil démissionnait pour protester contre les budgets, il aurait fait beaucoup de commentaires dans la presse. Donc ça ne doit pas être lier à ça.

[astrochti]

A savoir qu'en 2007 Alan Stern faisait parti des 100 personnalités les plus influentes dans le monde.
Selon le classement de Time Magazine. Entre la diminution du budget et la dimission de Mr Stern aucun des deux liens n'ais rapproché.