Report: former Air Force general to lead NASA
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2009, 12:40 AM ET (0540 GMT)
A retired Air Force general with virtually no space experience is expected to be named as early as Wednesday as the next administrator of NASA, according to published reports Tuesday evening. Jonathan Scott Gration, who retired from the Air Force as a major general in 2006, has been asked to become NASA administrator by President-elect Barack Obama's transition team; that nomination could be made public on Wednesday. Gration, who served as a military policy advisor to the Obama campaign, is largely an outsider to the space community, with his only space experience coming from a stint as a White House Fellow in the early 1980s, working for NASA's deputy administrator.
A retired Air Force general with virtually no space experience is expected to be named as early as Wednesday as the next administrator of NASA, according to published reports Tuesday evening. Jonathan Scott Gration, who retired from the Air Force as a major general in 2006, has been asked to become NASA administrator by President-elect Barack Obama's transition team; that nomination could be made public on Wednesday. Gration, who served as a military policy advisor to the Obama campaign, is largely an outsider to the space community, with his only space experience coming from a stint as a White House Fellow in the early 1980s, working for NASA's deputy administrator.
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