NASA appoints first woman science chief

NASA appoints first woman science chief

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: March 02 2023

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  • For the first time, the American space agency NASA has appointed a woman as the Science Chief. This post has been given to a woman for the first time.
  • NASA has picked Nicola Fox, a longtime solar scientist who heads its heliophysics division to become the U.S. space agency’s science chief.
  • She will be the first woman named to serve in the role.
  • She is a former top scientist on the Parker Solar Probe mission studying the sun.
  • Fox will lead NASA’s science directorate, a unit with an annual budget of roughly $7 billion.
  • The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
  • It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States.
  • Founded: 29 July 1958, United States
  • Founder: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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