If you made a list of jobs for preparing someone to become the steward of the U.S. civil weather satellite enterprise, your list would look a lot like the resume of NASA veteran Stephen Volz.

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Dan Leone is the NASA reporter for SpaceNews, where he also covers other civilian-run U.S. government space programs and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. He joined SpaceNews in 2011.Dan earned a bachelor's degree in public communications...