«Start of snippet» DITTEMORE DEPARTING NASA, SOURCES SAY ------------------------------------- Shuttle program manager Ronald Dittemore, the clean-cut, straight-talking engineer whose daily briefings in the wake of the Columbia disaster won widespread respect, plans to leave NASA in the near future, sources say, presumably to take a job in private industry. http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts107/030419dittemore/ «End of snippet»