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NASA is neither parochial nor patriarchal

By Mark Whittington
Published April 21, 2021 4:00am ET
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NASA is neither parochial nor patriarchal
NASA deputy administrator Lori B. Garver, left, looks at the tiles on the space shuttle Atlantis with STS-132 commander Ken Ham, center, and mission specialist Michael Good after the orbiter landed safely on Kennedy Space Center's runway 33 Wednesday, May 26, 2010, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. | (AP Photo/Joe Skipper, Pool)

Lori Garver, the former deputy administrator of NASA, is not happy with President Joe Biden’s nomination of former Sen. Bill Nelson to become the space agency’s next administrator.

Her critique of Nelson in the pages of Scientific American as a purveyor of space pork is spot-on. Nelson is the author of the heavy-lift Space Launch System, which is obsolete before it has ever flown, not to mention being far behind schedule and over budget. Garver failed to mention her role in letting Nelson do that, which she relates in a piece published in CNBC.

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