Tag: Mike Suffredini

  • One-on-one with NASA’s chief space station builder

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    Mike Suffredini leaves NASA on Sept. 9 to take a job in the private sector. Credit: NASA Mike Suffredini is leaving NASA after 10 years at the helm of the International Space Station program, overseeing assembly of the largest spacecraft ever built and shepherding the program through numerous political and technical roadblocks. He took over…

  • NASA space station program manager stepping down

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Michael Suffredini, NASA’s outgoing ISS program manager, led the program since 2005. Credit: NASA Mike Suffredini, manager of NASA’s International Space Station program, is stepping down after 10 years overseeing the lab’s final assembly and transition to post-shuttle operations, the agency said Wednesday. Kirk Shireman, deputy director of…

  • NASA hopes to replace cargo lost on Antares failure this year

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    SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft arrives at the International Space Station on Jan. 12 with 2.6 tons of supplies. Credit: NASA NASA officials say the International Space Station’s logistics chain was designed to absorb a launch failure like the mishap that destroyed an Orbital Sciences Corp. cargo craft in October, but pressure is on SpaceX to deliver…

  • NASA ‘leaning on’ SpaceX to keep ISS supply lines open

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    A previous Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station in September 2014. Credit: SpaceX The Dragon spaceship poised for launch Tuesday will carry more than 2.5 tons of equipment for the International Space Station’s six-person crew, making the first U.S. supply delivery to the orbiting research complex since the crash of an Antares cargo rocket…