He returned to NASA twice to serve on boards of enquiry, the first into the near-disaster of Apollo 13, the second into the disintegration of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.
The suspensions were announced by a SAFA emergency committee on Monday, ahead of an enquiry, with vice president Chief Mwelo Nonkonyana set to take interim charge of the governing body.
Police said they had been following "many lines of enquiry" and officers carried out stop-checks of motorists on Churchill Way 24 hours after the robbery.
Data gathered by the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD) suggests as many as one in five patients on intravenous (IV) fluids have complications or die because of inappropriate administration.
In its response to the government's consultation on reforming the banking system after the Northern Rock crisis, the BBA called for an "open enquiry" into the recent financial turmoil.