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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