NASA’s new head scientist, Dr Nicola Fox, is on a mission to uncover the mysteries of the Universe and has a seven billion dollar budget to do it.
Official portrait of Dr Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
Raised in Hertfordshire, UK and encouraged by her parents to think big from an early age, Fox is only the second woman to hold the post, which has the formal title Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate.