With a new job lined up with a local contractor, Steve Cook, manager of NASA’s Ares Project Office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., announced his resignation Aug. 27, ending a 19-year career with the U.S. space agency. NASA headquarters spokesman Grey Huataluoma confirmed Cook’s planned departure Aug. 28.

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