Apr 24 1989
From The Space Library
Six top-level NASA managers announced their resignations in order to avoid new conflict-of-interest restrictions on contract related work by former Federal employees. The new restrictions, effective May 16, 1989, would bar officials who have worked on procurement from assuming any private sector jobs involving the contracts for two years. Some of the resigning managers cited the failure of Congress to pass a pay raise for senior executive service (SES) personnel as a reason for leaving. The six NASA officials who announced their resignations were Noel Hinners, Associate Deputy Administrator; James Odom, Director of the Space Station program; Jon McBride, an astronaut and chief of congressional relations; John Thomas, head of Solid Rocket Booster redesign at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC); Bill Sneed, MSFC policy chief; and James Downey, Director of MSFC's payload project office. (NASA Releases 89-60, 89-61, 89-62, Apr 24/89; AP, Apr 24/89; UPI, Apr 24/89; WSJ, Apr 25/89; W Post, Apr 25/89; W Times, Apr 25/89)
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