Nomination of Kathy Sullivan to Be NOAA Administrator, September 2013

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing on September 19, 2013 on President Obama’s nomination of Dr. Kathryn Sullivan to be Under Secretary of Commerce and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).   NOAA operates the nation’s weather satellites.  Sullivan, an oceanographer by training, is a former NASA astronaut who was the first American woman to make a spacewalk.   SpacePolicyOnline.com published a summary of the nomination hearing on September 19.