Wes Huntress, Charles Kennel and Eugene Levy are off the NASA Advisory Council science committee.
Kennel resigned, Griffin fires Huntress and Levy.
NASAwatch has little more.
This is interesting and bad. The NASA advisory committee structure is already in tatters, and these people had clout in the scientific community.
Something bad is going on.
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Rain? I thought only snow fell from the sky. Anyway, links for you. Science:
In the Washington Post article Lott says:
Today, I briefly emerged from my little academic cocoon and stepped outside. I was shocked to discover that the snow had all melted, the lakes were all thawed out, there were birds in the air, and the sun was shining — I think I somehow missed the appearance of spring.
My spies tell me that Griffin may not be the driving force behind this, but rather the chair of the NAC. But my spies freely admit that they are somewhat in the dark.
Schmitt asked for this?
I guess it is really over the Lunar Science, and onlyLunar Science, direction.
Moral dilemma - if you can think of science that could be done ok from the Moon, should you push it? Not the best way, not the cheapest way - but it might be the only way for now.
The price is that the Lunar Science comes out of the Science Directorate budget, not the Exploration Directorate.
Not that Eugene Levy?