The NASA Podium Is Still Empty
NASA has never gone this long without a formal administrator, Ars Technica
“Four-time astronaut Charles Bolden resigned as NASA administrator on January 20, 2017, leaving the space agency after more than seven years on the job. Since then, a former director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, Robert Lightfoot, has served as interim director. He has held this post now for 315 days, or nearly 11 months. According to an analysis of the gaps between administrators at the space agency, NASA has never gone this long without a formal administrator. Beginning with T. Keith Glennan in 1958 and running through the term of Charles Bolden six decades later, there have been ten transitions between NASA administrators. The average gap between administrators has been 3.7 months.”
Lightfoot might very well hold the position for another 11 months, at least. Appointing a NASA Administrator doesn’t appear to be a high priority.
http://nasawatch.com/archiv…
Always had been the plan. Waiting for the the Brendenstine term to end.
Makes no difference if there is, or isn’t an Administrator. The trains keep running, some on time, some not, just like always.
Yes, the mark of a true bureaucracy is that it runs independently of who ever the current political appointee happens to be, or even without one.