First female director appointed for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

For the first time in its 85-year history, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a female director.

Geochemist and space scientist Laurie Leshin will serve as the director for JPL as well as the vice president of the California Institute of Technology, both located in Pasadena. Faculty and students from Caltech founded JPL in 1936 and have managed the laboratory on behalf of NASA since 1958.

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