Eugene Tu
Eugene Tu, director of NASA's Ames Research Center. Credit: NASA Ames

NASA picked an insider as the next director of the Ames Research Center. The agency announced May 4 that Eugene Tu, the director of exploration technology at the center, will take over as Ames director, succeeding Pete Worden, who retired at the end of March.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...