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Senate Confirms Newman As NASA Deputy Administrator

Friday, May 22nd, 2015

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The Senate on April 27 confirmed Dava Newman as NASA deputy administrator by a vote of 87-0.Newman is a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and of engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has been on the MIT faculty since 1993.Newman’s research has included the development of a radical new spacesuit design that is tighter-fitting and would afford much greater mobility and lighter weight than today’s pressure suits. She has focused on quantifying astronaut performance in space,…

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