Pascale Ehrenfreund, a research professor at George Washington University's Space Policy Institute, was selected June 18 to succeed Johann-Dietrich Wörner as the executive chairman of the German space agency DLR. Credit: DLR
Pascale Ehrenfreund, a research professor at George Washington University's Space Policy Institute, was selected June 18 to succeed Johann-Dietrich Woerner as the executive chairman of the German space agency DLR.

The German Aerospace Center, DLR, on June 18 said Pascale Ehrenfreund, a professor at the Space Policy Institute in Washington, would be the center’s new executive chair, succeeding Johann-Dietrich Woerner, who on July 1 becomes head of the European Space Agency.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews.