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Dava J. Newman is Deputy Administrator of NASA,[1] and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is best known for promoting the development of space activity suits, namely the Bio-Suit, which would provide pressure by tension in the suit's textile weave, rather than with pressurized gas. The suit is designed to help astronauts move around more easily than gas-filled suits allow.[2][3][4]
She is a former housemaster of MIT's Baker House.[5][6]
NASA Deputy Administrator nomination[]
In October 2014, she was nominated by President Barack Obama as Deputy Administrator of NASA,[7] but the U.S. Senate returned the nomination to the President in December 2014 when the 113th Congress adjourned without having confirmed her for the position.[8] Under Senate rules, in order for Newman to be confirmed, Obama needed to re-nominate her to the Senate of the 114th Congress, and he did so on January 8, 2015.[9][10] Her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation was held March 25, 2015,[11] and the Committee unanimously recommended approval by the full Senate.[12]
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- ↑ "Housemasters". MIT. 13 February 2010. https://baker.mit.edu/about/housemasters/.
- ↑ "Three undergraduate communities to welcome new housemasters this fall". http://news.mit.edu/2015/three-undergraduate-communities-welcome-new-housemasters-0709. Retrieved 2015-09-16.
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- ↑ Presidential nomination no. 2091, "Dava J. Newman, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, vice Lori Garver, resigned", 113th Congress, November 12, 2014. Accessed March 26, 2015.
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- ↑ Presidential nomination no. 43, Dava J. Newman, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, vice Lori Garver, resigned, 114th Congress, January 8, 2015. Accessed March 26, 2015.
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External links[]
- Brief bio page at MIT website
- Dava Newman Playlist Appearance on WMBR's Dinnertime Sampler radio show February 18, 2004
- MIT Portugal Program
- BIF Summit talk by Dava Newman
- NASA Biography
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