Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – US President Joe Biden has appointed former US senator and astronaut Bill Nelson as head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the White House said in a statement Friday.
Nelson has been working at NASA for a long time. He flew on the Columbia spacecraft in 1986 and is currently a member of NASA’s advisory board.
Nelson, who holds three positions in the Senate, will take control of NASA to expand his credibility in the commercial aerospace field by sending humans back to the moon for the first time since the 1970s.
Biden agreed to pursue a project called Artemis, which began under former President Donald Trump and aims to land astronauts on the moon by 2024, the start of an even more ambitious human landing on Mars in the future.
Later, Nelson will replace Jim Friedenstein who was appointed by Trump as a former administrator of NASA.
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Photo: Photo taken by the avid rover Mars on February 20, 2021, showing the surface of Mars. It landed on Thursday, February 18 (via NASA / JPL-Caltech AP) – |
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