Pam Melroy retiring from NASA

Space.com is reporting that Col. Pam Melroy (USAF, ret), is leaving NASA to
take a job with Lockheed-Martin. She'll be joining their Orion CEV team.
With the shuttle rundown, another shuttle command wasn't likely, so she
heads over to private industry (and a fatter paycheck, too). Too bad: when
the Orion flight test begins, she would've been a contender to command one
of the Orion test flights to ISS.

On Aug 12, 1:52*am, "Matt Wiser" wrote:
Space.com is reporting that Col. Pam Melroy (USAF, ret), is leaving NASA to
take a job with Lockheed-Martin. She'll be joining their Orion CEV team.
With the shuttle rundown, another shuttle command wasn't likely, so she
heads over to private industry (and a fatter paycheck, too). Too bad: when
the Orion flight test begins, she would've been a contender to command one
of the Orion test flights to ISS.

Seems to me a lot of experienced astronauts are going to leave the
corps. Available flight seats are getting low in number.

"Matthew B. Ota" writes:

Seems to me a lot of experienced astronauts are going to leave the
corps. Available flight seats are getting low in number.

8, 4, 3, 2, 1....

:-(

Dave