{"id":52699,"date":"2023-09-25T20:43:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T12:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/charity-weeden-joins-nasa-as-head-of-technology-policy-strategy\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T20:43:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T12:43:34","slug":"charity-weeden-joins-nasa-as-head-of-technology-policy-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/charity-weeden-joins-nasa-as-head-of-technology-policy-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity Weeden Joins NASA as Head of Technology, Policy, Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Charity Weeden joined <strong>NASA<\/strong> as associate administrator for the agency\u2019s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS).&nbsp;Weeden joins NASA from <strong>Astroscale U.S.<\/strong>, where she served as vice president for global space policy and government relations, leading spaceflight safety and long-term space sustainability efforts. <\/p>\n<p>She was formerly senior director of policy at the Satellite Industry Association, and is a 23-year veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The OTPS guides NASA on its strategic planning and investments, working with NASA mission directorates and the broader space community. Its researchers work to inform and shape policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we established the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy, the goal was to address a need for strategic advice that cuts across our mission directorates, centers, and other organizations to guide NASA\u2019s success. I am confident Charity and the OTPS team will help us continue that crucial work,\u201d commented NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The appointment is effective immediately. Weeden succeeds Bhavya Lal, who left the agency in July, and Ellen Gertsen, who had been serving as the office\u2019s acting leader since then.<\/p>\n<p>Weeden&nbsp;has written about space sustainability issues as a contributor for <i>Via Satellite<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charity Weeden joined NASA as associate administrator for the agency\u2019s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS).&nbsp;Weeden joins NASA from Astroscale U.S., where she served as vice president for global space policy and government relations, leading spaceflight safety and long-term space sustainability efforts. She was formerly senior director of policy at the Satellite Industry Association, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}