![Garver: NASA Should Cancel SLS and Mars 2020 Rover]()
Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver made some of her most critical comments since stepping down in September about two key NASA programs: the Space Launch System and Mars 2020 rover.
We only need one director of NASA, and that is Charles Bolden.
![With Garver’s Departure, NASA Loses Strong Change Advocate]()
Commercial space advocates are among those who will be sorriest when she steps down.
![Exit Interview | A Brief Conversation with Outgoing NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver]()
On Sept. 9 she’s due to start a new job: general manager of the Air Line Pilots Association.
Elon Musk, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. founder and CEO, in an email to SpaceNews
“Lori made a real difference to the future of spaceflight. Most people put their career first, so they pla…
With Lori Garver’s plans to leave NASA come Sept. 6 now official, speculation naturally turns to who -- if anybody -- will replace her as NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden’s deputy.
![Lori Garver Leaving NASA for Air Line Pilots Association]()
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver is stepping down Sept. 6 to take the top staff job at the Washington-based Air Line Pilots Association, SpaceNews has confirmed. A formal announcement is expected Aug. 6.
![Garver: Show Women Value of Science Careers To Boost Ranks at NASA]()
The U.S. space agency is in need of more women among its ranks.
![NASA’s Garver Floats Idea of Capturing Larger Asteroid]()
One way to expand public and congressional support for NASA’s proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission would be to target a larger asteroid than previously proposed.
![Garver: House Bill Only ‘Beginning of the Debate’ on Asteroid Mission]()
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver defended a proposal to send astronauts to a captured asteroid and vowed that the agency would continue to make the case for mission in the House of Representatives, where lawmakers have targeted the project for termination.
![Garver Defends NASA’s Commercial Programs]()
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver says she is baffled that congressional resistance to the agency’s commercial crew and cargo programs persists in the wake of Space Exploration Technology’s two successful resupply flights to the international space station.
![Garver: Fomenting Commercial Spaceflight Industry is a Top NASA Priority]()
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said jumpstarting a commercial human spaceflight industry is among the agency’s highest priorities, and cited current programs for delivering crews and cargo to the international space station as tangible progress toward that goal.
![Garver: Funding Cut Would Only Delay Commercial Crew Effort]()
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — NASA remains committed to preserving competition in its commercial crew initiative even if Congress does not provide the full $830 million requested for the effort in 2012, a senior agency official said.
![Garver Puts Price on Cutting Crew Program]()
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said that if the United States does not fully fund the agency’s effort to develop commercial vehicles to ferry crews to the international space station, it could be stuck beyond 2016 paying Russia $450 million a year for Soyuz flights.
![Garver’s CCDev Pitch: Pay Americans Now or Russians Later [MSNBC.com]]()
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said that if the United States does not fully fund the agency’s effort to develop commercial vehicles to ferry crews to the international space station, it will have to pay Russia $450 million for every year of delay, MSNBC.com reported Oct. 20 in its Cosmic Log.
![Garver Declares Stalemate Over [Huntsville Times]]()
In an interview with editors and reporters at the Huntsville Times late last week, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver declared an end to the impasse in Washington over the U.S. space agency's future, saying the agency is ready to begin work next year on a heavy-lift rocket if that's what Congress ultimately decides. She also reassured local readers that NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center would lead heavy-lift development.
![Garver: NASA Must Evolve the Way It Works with the Private Sector]()
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Despite concerns that funding shortfalls will hamper NASA’s efforts to promote a private industry capable of ferrying cargo and crew into low Earth orbit, government and industry officials attending the Space Frontier Foundation’s annual conference said they were confident that commercial firms would continue to play an increasingly important role in the U.S. space program.
![Garver, Bolden Urge Passage of NASA Authorization]()
WASHINGTON — After months of bipartisan wrangling on Capitol Hill over the future of NASA’s manned spaceflight program, the agency’s top two officials urged support for the Senate version of a three-year NASA authorization bill headed for a vote in the U.S. House this evening, even as a group of House lawmakers voiced strong opposition to the measure.
![Lori Garver, NASA Deputy Administrator]()
Shortly after being sworn in as NASA administrator last July, Charles Bolden said he would be relying heavily on his deputy, Lori Garver, who was sworn in alongside him, to help pilot the U.S. space agency through the shark-infested waters of Washington politics.
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