This AP story doesn’t say who’s aboard, but I’m hearing other reports that he was aboard the plane that crashed in Alaska.
He’s a former administrator, so it will have no effect on policy, obviously, but condolences to his friends and family if he and/or his son didn’t survive.
[Update a while later]
More over at NASA Watch.
This report says O’Keefe and Ted Stevens were aboard, and that Stevens may not have survived. CNN and Fox have picked it up now, no details though.
Concur on the condolences. Lots of discussion in Houston, but all word is the same and as accurate as all other news sources. Indeed, I first learned of his son being with him here.
ABC News confirming Sen. Stevens has died, but that O’Keefe and his son are seriously injured but alive.
Condolences to families of the departed, and prayers for the speedy recovery of the injured.