The New Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Lechman

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Newly minted head director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Lechman. JPL is also in a way a branch of the California Institute of Technology, Caltech,. Ensuring that it has an unending access to academic excellence. Do they let you jump onto social media all by yourself or do you have to vet what you post? Because people want to follow what you do. I am at Laurie of Mars on Twitter.

Could there be life under the icy surface of Europa? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice explore interplanetary missions, asteroid mining, and other exciting launches with the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Leshin.

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Photo Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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