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Read article: NASA puts UK physicist Nicola Fox in charge of $7.8bn science programme Astronomy and space News NASA puts UK physicist Nicola Fox in charge of $7.8bn science programme Nicola Fox takes over from Thomas Zurbuchen as NASA’s associate administrator for the space agency's science mission directorate