Dr Paul Hertz szef wydziału astrofizyki NASA od ponad 9 lat zapowiedział nieoczekiwanie podczas 238th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) swoje odejście ze stanowiska z końcem roku. W zakresie zadań tego wydziału znajdują się m. in. flagowe misje teleskopów kosmicznych.NASA astrophysics director to step downby Jeff Foust — June 8, 2021
Paul Hertz, who has been director of NASA's astrophysics division since early 2012, said June 7 he will step down by the end of the year. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky(...) “If I wanted to describe him with one word, I think of him as the oracle,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science, of Hertz at the town hall meeting, praising him as someone who “provides wise and insightful counsel or even prophetic predictions.” (...)
Hertz won widespread support in the agency and the astrophysics community for running a broad program that ranges from flagship-class space telescopes to Explorer-class small missions and, more recently, smallsat and cubesat spacecraft. He also worked to bolster funding for research and analysis programs that support scientists in the astrophysics field. (...)
Hertz said that he told friends a few years ago that he would step down only after the Roman Space Telescope passed its confirmation review, the decadal survey was completed and JWST launched. So far just one of those, the confirmation of Roman, has occurred. “But I’m very confident all three will be realized before the end of the year.”
https://spacenews.com/nasa-astrophysics-director-to-step-down/Scott Gaudi@bsgaudi 5:43 AM · 8 cze 2021
After spending a fair fraction of my professional career over the last ten years working with Paul (
@PHertzNASA ) in a variety of capacities, I can say with some authority that he has been a truly outstanding leader of NASA's APD division.
https://twitter.com/bsgaudi/status/1402108919095476227
https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/organization-and-staff/staff-bios/dr-paul-hertz