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March 18, 2021 03:12 pm

Biden to tap former Senator Bill Nelson as NASA chief




Bill Nelson
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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, bolsters its climate research and expands its reliance on a flourishing commercial space industry.


A former congressman and three-term US senator from Florida, Nelson 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...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/18/22337787/biden-nasa-chief-choice-senator-bill-nelson

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