INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT

Originally from Herefordshire, UK, Nicky Fox is now NASA's head of science. In this month's episode of The Sky at Night, she spoke with the team about the agency's plans

What do you do as NASA's head of science? I manage, look after and nurture all the science missions for NASA – anything that's not human space exploration falls under the Science Mission Directorate. Right now, we have about 144 missions. Some are still on PowerPoint charts; some have been in space for 47 years, like Voyager. We have a lot of medical research science that's on the International Space Station. There are missions to study the Sun, the planets of the Solar System and obviously our favourite planet, Earth, plus we study the Universe with our astrophysics telescopes. I get very involved in the missions, especially as they're preparing to launch. The technology is really inspiring when you hear about what the missions are going to do. But I…

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BBC Sky at Night United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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