Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005, 2:25 PM ET (1825 GMT)
The director of NASA's Langley Research Center announced plans Friday to retire by the beginning of next year, while the director of the Glenn Research Center was offered a university presidency on Friday. Roy Bridges, director of Langley since 2003, said Friday he planned to retire in January because he no longer feels "100 percent focused: on the job. Bridges, a former shuttle astronaut, previously served as director of the Kennedy Space Center. Also on Friday, Alabama A&M University announced that it had selected Glenn director Julian Earls as its next president, although did not specify when he would assume the office. Earls told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that he had not decided whether to accept the job.

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