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HOUSTON, Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Astronaut Brent Jett has left the agency following a NASA career including four space shuttle flights, heading the agency's Flight Crew Operations Directorate and most recently serving as deputy manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) "Brent has been a remarkable asset to NASA and our human spaceflight programs," said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for...

Competitive Agreements Will Keep U.S. Commercial Space Program on Track NASA announced Dec. 15 a modified competitive procurement strategy to keep on track the agency’s plan to have U.S. companies transport American astronauts into space instead of outsourcing this work to foreign governments. Instead of awarding contracts for the next phase of the Commercial Crew Program, the agency plans to use multiple, competitively awarded Space Act Agreements. Using competitive Space Act...

Competitive Agreements Will Keep U.S. Commercial Space Program on Track WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA announced today a modified competitive procurement strategy to keep on track the agency's plan to have U.S. companies transport American astronauts into space instead of outsourcing this work to foreign governments. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Instead of awarding contracts for the next phase of the Commercial Crew...