Endeavour commander Mark Kelly to retire
Veteran space shuttle commander Mark Kelly announced June 21 that he will retire from NASA and the US Navy effective Oct. 1 to be at the side of his wife, Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, as she continues her recovery from a gunshot wound to the head suffered during a Jan. 8 rally in Tucson.
Declan Kelly, the US economic envoy to Northern Ireland, has resigned from the job after less than two years in the post.