NASA's watchdog found no evidence of wrongdoing in the May reassignment of the Constellation program manager.
NASA reassigned Jeff Hanley to be an associate director for strategic capabilities at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Hanley had been outspoken in support of the return-to-the-moon program he had led for five years, and which is scheduled for cancellation under President Obama's proposed 2011 budget.
His reassignment caused some critics of the president's proposal to suggest that NASA was trying to stop the program in violation of a Congressional order requiring it to continue until Congress authorizes a change of direction. Some key senators asked NASA's Office of the Inspector General to investigate.
The investigation "found that Hanley does not claim he was retaliated against through his reassignment and we uncovered no evidence of unlawful reprisal," according to NASA Inspector General Paul Martin.
"The OIG also found no evidence to suggest that Hanley was reassigned in order to delay or thwart execution of the Constellation program or to foreclose Congress's ability to consider alternatives to the administration's plans for NASA."
NASA has since appointed Dale Thomas to be the Constellation program manager.
Read the NASA watchdog report on Hanley's reassignment.
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8 comments:
Umm...Who cares?!?! The Constellation program was never real it was just a reason to keep giving NASA money for no reason!!!
Yeah right........
Well of course the guy isn't going to whine about retaliation! he wants to keep his job, DUH! Just because he got move doesn't means he lost money. Heck less duty same pay. cool! How many NASA people can we send to arabic language school per day and still maintain strategic capability? I'll have to get back to in 6 months.
you say it is just a reason to keep giving NASA money for no reason, but there was and is a strategic plan involved with the Constellation program to get NASA out of low earth orbit into deeper space....and with out money coming into the kennedy space center, our community will be without a lot of money and as stores start closing and buisnesses laying off people to compensate for less people spending money, our area will have nothing. it is estimated that for every space center employee layed off another 2 people will be layed off in the local economy....it will be scary around here for sure!
Can't believe you actually posted this nonsense. More spin doctors. I want to see how they spin the Bolden/Muslin situation away.
Remember who promised to support Manned Space in 2008 .We will in November .
Keep the kool-aid flowing till the money runs out!
what were those 3 priorities again?
Hanley is at a high enough level (called Senior Executive Service or SES) in NASA that he has no job security - if the Administrator wants him to do another job, even at another center, he either takes it or gets terminated.
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