Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo...
by ceejayoz on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:35AM
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It doesn't sound like that from his own wording:
> He wrote that he took “a risk earlier in the year because I judged it necessary to fulfill our mission. Now, over the balance of time, it is clear that I made a mistake in that choice for which I alone must bear the consequences.”
My suspicion is it was this: "Boeing also bid but was not awarded with a study contract."
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/nasa-selects-hls-lunar-lande...
He very well could have made an stupid but honest mistake at some point prior to coming over to his current position (it looks like he was hired last October), and it finally caught up to him.