Lori Garver to leave NASA

摘要

In a move that only shocked those outside the whispering galleries of the inner Beltway, NASA's Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced on 5 August that she is leaving on 6 September to head up the Air Line Pilots Association, a union with 50,000 members in the US and Canada. After working for Senator John Glenn and then becoming executive director of the National Space Society, Garver was appointed to her post with NASA in July 2009 and has fought fiercely for a 'new' NASA encouraging commercial space operations replacing big-budget, government-run programmes.