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10-22-2008, 09:01 PM
A day after the Lisa Marie Nowak astronaut love triangle case was back in court, a little suprise in NASA documents surfaced.
It's now more a year since an astronaut health review committee recommended that a professional code of conduct be developed for astronauts. (http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/astronaut_report_FAQ_prt.htm) That's the last anyone heard of it--until suddenly, over at WESH (http://www.wesh.com/spacenews/17776620/detail.html) in Orlando, FL, reporter Dan Billow came up with something new in the documents archived on the Johnson Space Center.
There it was--a link to a new Astronaut Code of Professional Responsibility. As far as is now known,no press release or public announcement was made that the code had been completed or made public.
You would think that a document like this one,following on the heels of the scandal that cost the NASA careers of Nowak and Oefelein, and could send Nowak to jail, would be announced. Not only was it not announced, but if you search for it on the main NASA website, it can't be found.
So what was all the tip-toe, hush-huh web posting about? Since NASA posted it as a read-only, very large PDF file --with text locked into artwork of a shooting star against a blue background,--the code is hard to download for other use.
Here are the major sections: competence, teamwork, integrity, relationships, personal behavior, stewardship and lifelong commitment.
It's filled with phrases such as "We establish relationships of trust with our co-workers throughout the NASA community. We will maintain our professional standards in these relationships in both the work and social environments. We will protect and balance the best interests of our co-workers, families, and NASA."
If you'd like to read more, the link to the 10.8 MB file is in the resource box. Note that the committee specifically did not evaluate Nowak's medical records. Nor did it evaluate so-far unsubstantiated reports of alcohol abuse by astronauts.
This is the first time in NASA's 50-year history that such a code has been developed.
More... (http://www.examiner.com/x-504-Space-News-Examiner~y2008m10d22-The-Lisa-Marie-Nowak-fallout-NASA-tiptoes-astronaut-code-of-conduct--into-view?cid=exrss-Space-News-Examiner)
It's now more a year since an astronaut health review committee recommended that a professional code of conduct be developed for astronauts. (http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/astronaut_report_FAQ_prt.htm) That's the last anyone heard of it--until suddenly, over at WESH (http://www.wesh.com/spacenews/17776620/detail.html) in Orlando, FL, reporter Dan Billow came up with something new in the documents archived on the Johnson Space Center.
There it was--a link to a new Astronaut Code of Professional Responsibility. As far as is now known,no press release or public announcement was made that the code had been completed or made public.
You would think that a document like this one,following on the heels of the scandal that cost the NASA careers of Nowak and Oefelein, and could send Nowak to jail, would be announced. Not only was it not announced, but if you search for it on the main NASA website, it can't be found.
So what was all the tip-toe, hush-huh web posting about? Since NASA posted it as a read-only, very large PDF file --with text locked into artwork of a shooting star against a blue background,--the code is hard to download for other use.
Here are the major sections: competence, teamwork, integrity, relationships, personal behavior, stewardship and lifelong commitment.
It's filled with phrases such as "We establish relationships of trust with our co-workers throughout the NASA community. We will maintain our professional standards in these relationships in both the work and social environments. We will protect and balance the best interests of our co-workers, families, and NASA."
If you'd like to read more, the link to the 10.8 MB file is in the resource box. Note that the committee specifically did not evaluate Nowak's medical records. Nor did it evaluate so-far unsubstantiated reports of alcohol abuse by astronauts.
This is the first time in NASA's 50-year history that such a code has been developed.
More... (http://www.examiner.com/x-504-Space-News-Examiner~y2008m10d22-The-Lisa-Marie-Nowak-fallout-NASA-tiptoes-astronaut-code-of-conduct--into-view?cid=exrss-Space-News-Examiner)