{"id":684587,"date":"2021-03-19T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=684587"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:12:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:12:05","slug":"biden-to-nominate-former-sen-bill-nelson-of-florida-as-nasa-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=684587","title":{"rendered":"Biden To Nominate Former Sen. Bill Nelson Of Florida As NASA Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ap_18317724032097_wide-eaa8153a46006ded782c6d9636c9ac69b895907b.jpg\" alt=\"Then-Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at the U.S. Capitol in 2018. Nelson has been chosen to lead NASA.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nelson, who spent six days in orbit aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1986, would succeed Trump-era administrator Jim Bridenstine.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: J. Scott Applewhite\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/npr-rss-pixel-11.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/19\/978580209\/biden-to-nominate-former-sen-bill-nelson-of-florida-as-nasa-head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden To Nominate Former Sen. Bill Nelson Of Florida As NASA Head<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson, who spent six days in orbit aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1986, would succeed Trump-era administrator Jim Bridenstine. (Image credit: J. Scott Applewhite\/AP) &#013; &#013; &#013; Click here&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}