From NASAwatch:
SOFIA taken from Ames and moved to Dryden Research Facility at Edwards
Science Mission Directorate turmoil - who is leaving next?
These are not unrelated.
I do wish certain people in Very Senior Positions would do their job like mature professionals and not like petulant high schoolers with a grudge.
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