NASA Begins Search for New Mars Program Director

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NASA expects its search for a permanent Mars Exploration Program director to take several months, according to an agency spokesman.The post vacated in late December by Doug McCuistion, a former Navy commander, is currendy staffed in an acting capacity by James Green, the director of NASA's Planetary Science Division.NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown said Jan. 3 that the agency had yet to pick a full-time successor for McCuistion, who ran the agency's $500-mil-lion-a-year robotic Mars exploration program for the past eight-and-a-half years.