What does the NASA administrator do? The agency’s leader reaches for the stars while navigating budgets and politics back on Earth

By Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University

Leaders of NASA sit in an awkward position. While they are the head of a widely recognized organization, they’re often not the most famous individual in the agency. More people probably know the names of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the astronauts currently “stranded” on the International Space Station, than Bill Nelson, the current NASA administrator.

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