Alan Stern to Replace Mary Cleave at SMD
Alan Stern Selected to Lead NASA Science Mission Directorate
“NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced Monday that Dr. S. Alan Stern will be the agency’s associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, effective April 2. Stern succeeds Dr. Mary L. Cleave who announced her retirement. Stern joins NASA from the Southwest Research Institute’s Space Science and Engineering Division, Boulder, Colo., where he has been serving as executive director of the Space Science and Engineering Division.”