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Ellen Stofan, former NASA chief scientist, to head National Air and Space Museum [i]Ellen Stofan was eight years old when the first astronauts landed on the moon. Now, almost 50 years later, she has been chosen to head the museum entrusted with the mission's spacecraft and artifacts, filling a role that was first held by a member of the Apollo 11 crew. Stofan, who was NASA's chief scientist from 2013 to 2016, has been named the director of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, effective April 30. Stofan is the seventh person to lead the museum since Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins oversaw its founding in 1976, and is the first woman appointed to the position.[/i]
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