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STS-114 Astronaut Charles Camarda, JSC Engineering Director, Fired
Jim:
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Will this harm Camarda's chances of flying again?
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By taking the engineering director job, he had taken himself out of the running. That job is not a temp or rotation job, can't do it and be an astronaut.
Ben E:
So has Camarda resigned from the astronaut corps?
Jim:
People only resign from the astronaut "corp" when they leave NASA (and the civil service). Taking another job with NASA is just that (taking another job). There really is not an astronaut corp per say, just another term for the astronaut office. Non military astronauts are civil servants. If a person was a NASA employee (civil servants) and was selected as astronaut, it would just be a change in title and pay scale. The same goes for an astronaut who gets another NASA job. Whether there an opening to go back to the astronaut office is another story.
Astronauts are some times detailed to other programs, but that is where they are suppose to apply their astronaut knowledge, and then go back to CB. Director of JSC Engineering is not a Detail job, it needs one's full attention and not be a temp job
Ender0319:
I spoke to Charlie today and he's still at JSC in Building 1.
Mark Dave:
I heard about this on one press conference.
Hopefully thigns go well for the better for everyone.
Also fellas, sorry for some humor but I was thinking on how a shuttle flight would be if the two Kelly brothers, Scott and Mark, were assigned to the same mission? What do you think, twin brothers, one as CDR, the other PLT on the same flight?
IMO that would be cool to see, and also amusing since it would be difficult to tell which one the news for the PLT or CDR. :) I don't know, I just thought of this.
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