Admin Posted March 18, 2021 Posted March 18, 2021 Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call President Biden has tapped former Democratic Senator Bill Nelson for NASA administrator, according to three people familiar with the decision. Nelson, a politically experienced ally of the administration, would steer the space agency as it races to return humans to the Moon and bolster its climate research. Nelson, a former congressman and three-term US senator from Florida, would succeed former president Trump’s NASA chief Jim Bridenstine, whose past experience in Congress proved key in rallying support for the Artemis program, an ambitious campaign to use the Moon as a stepping stone for future astronaut missions to Mars. Biden’s decision comes nearly two months after he took office and as the White House remains largely silent on... Continue reading… View the full article Quote
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