3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 29
Summary
Nov. 30 is when Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II’s lunar flyby in April, will take over as deputy director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Caltech, which manages JPL for NASA, said Wiseman fits a pivotal moment for the lab even though JPL has never before put an astronaut in senior leadership.
About 4,300 employees and contractors work at JPL, a center focused on deep-space robotic missions rather than human spaceflight, making the appointment an unusual match.
Wiseman holds engineering degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins, but he has not worked as an engineer or run an organization as large as JPL.