This Week in Space 24

NASA is 64 years old and has sometimes acted like it. Back in 2010, when Lori Garver became the number two at the space agency, commercial space was just a glimmer on the horizon, and it was business as usual. The week we talk to Lori about her new book about her time at NASA, "Escaping Gravity," and how she helped to reinvent the world's favorite space agency for a new space age.

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Links

• NASA picks SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to launch Roman Space Telescope
• Russia dismisses space agency chief in wake of international controversies
• Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age (Amazon)