NASA Adminitrator Bill Nelson pens letter to agency's next chief as Kennedy Space Center’s Janet Petro becomes interim leader
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has left the building, and while President Donald Trump’s nominee awaits a confirmation hearing, the head of Kennedy Space Center will keep things afloat. Nelson, who ...
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Bill Nelson steps down as NASA chief as Trump begins 2nd term
Nelson and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy left the agency on Monday (Jan. 20), the day that Donald Trump began his ...
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On this date: Then-U.S. Rep. Bill Nelson launches on shuttle Columbia
On this date in 1986, then-U.S. Rep. Bill Nelson (now outgoing NASA administrator) and six additional astronauts launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia on STS 61C. Shuttle flights had become ...
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Bill Nelson steps down as NASA chief as Trump begins 2nd term
I am humbled and grateful," Nelson said in a Monday X post. Nelson, a member of the Democratic Party, began his US government career in 1972, when he was elected to the Florida House of ...