Reilly
James Reilly, a former NASA astronaut who flew on three shuttle missions and performed five spacewalks, has been nominated to be the next director of the U.S. Geological Survey.

The White House announced Jan. 26 that it will nominate former NASA astronaut James Reilly to be the next director of the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...