NASA Administrator Bill Nelson On the Agency’s Future

Bill Nelson

After 40 years representing Florida in the U.S. Congress, former Sen. Bill Nelson became administrator of NASA in 2021.

Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
Like many at NASA, Bill Nelson has spent his career in public service. But unlike the engineers and scientists he oversees as agency administrator, Nelson spent the bulk of his 50-year career in Congress, representing Florida in the U.S. House and later the Senate. That, as well as a 1986 guest...
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