NASA Watch is reporting that NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will be leaving NASA for the Air Line Pilots Association. As NASA Watch’s Kevin Cowing reports:

Sources report that NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will be leaving the agency in a few weeks to take a non-space job in the private sector. A formal announcement is expected tomorrow (Tuesday). No word yet as to who will replace her – or if a Deputy Administrator will even be named.

Cowing suggests that NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot might be made Acting Deputy Administrator to avoid a confirmation battle between the White House and the Senate, a scenario that has held up only too many Executive branch political appointments in recent years.

Garver’s first job was in Senator John Glenn’s office, which is where she was bit by the space bug. She joined the newly formed National Space Society, becoming its second executive director in 1987 and went on to serve two stints at NASA. Garver has used her position as the the highest ranking woman at NASA to advocate for more women in STEM careers.

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Having wandered into professional writing and editing after a decade in engineering, science, and management, Merryl now enjoys reintegrating the dichotomy by bringing space technology and policy within reach of an interested public. After three years as Space Safety Magazine’s Managing Editor, Merryl semi-retired to Visiting Contributor and manager of the campaign to bring the International Space Station collaboration to the attention of the Nobel Peace Prize committee. She keeps her pencil sharp as Proposal Manager for U.S. government contractor CSRA.

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