Doug Loverro resigns as Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations

On 2020-05-24 2:50 PM, Jeff Findley wrote:
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Scott Manley's take on the resignation:
https://youtu.be/pHV14Tc2Jmw (8:47)

I watched that last night, nothing really new there.

Speculation is he gave Boeing information that he should not have.
Likely information that they should have changed their proposal to make
it more competitive. Possibly even specific information on the other
proposals.

Jeff


The motivation for that is believed to be Loverro's preference for
Boeing's proposal for the Artemis lander of one single assembly launched
on SLS rather than having Artemis assembled in orbit. The reasoning
being he thought this was a much more plausible approach to achieving a
lander by 2024. Why he thought that and acted on it (enough to kill his
job), I don't know. Boeing's track record for SLS (and Orion) being what
it is.

Dave