Alan Stern Named Head of NASA Science
Dr. Alan Stern, the Pluto New Horizons Mission Principal Investigator
has been promoted to NASA's Associate Administrator for the Science
Mission Directorate. Quantum Limit interviewed Dr. Stern here on this
blog last year regarding the furor over the demotion of Pluto from
planetary status. Dr. Stern is an outspoken critic of that decision.
Dr. Stern and I swapped congratulatory emails yesterday over his
promotion. I noted that he had a tough job ahead merging science with
the new vision for exploration in an agency headed for human moon and
Mars exploration. In his reply, he said that he was "looking forward
to helping move that ball down the field."
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