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		</div><p>The US Senate has confirmed former Florida senator Bill Nelson, who once flew on the space shuttle, to be the next Nasa administrator.</p>
<p>Politicians agreed to President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the space agency by consensus late on Thursday, without a roll call vote.</p>
<p>“I am honoured by the president’s nomination and the Senate vote,” Mr Nelson said in a statement.</p>
<p>“I will try to merit that trust.</p>
<p>“Onward and upward!”</p>
<p>Mr Nelson will become Nasa’s 14th administrator, succeeding another former member of Congress, Jim Bridenstine, a Republican from Oklahoma.</p>
<p>Mr Nelson currently serves on the Nasa Advisory Council.</p>
<p>Mr Nelson promised, when nominated, to “help lead Nasa into an exciting future of possibilities”.</p>
<p>The space agency is working to send astronauts back to the moon this decade.</p>
<p>“Its workforce radiates optimism, ingenuity and a can-do spirit,” Mr Nelson said.</p>
<p>“The Nasa team continues to achieve the seemingly impossible as we venture into the cosmos.”</p>
<p>Mr Nelson, 78, grew up near Cape Canaveral and was serving as a Democratic congressman when he launched aboard space shuttle Columbia on January 12 1986.</p>
<p>His commander was Charles Bolden Jr, who later served as Nasa administrator under President Barack Obama, at Mr Nelson’s urging.</p>
<p>Just 10 days after their flight ended, the space shuttle Challenger failed shortly after liftoff and all seven astronauts were killed.</p>
<p>Mr Nelson, who has a law degree and is a former captain in the US Army Reserve, served six terms in the House of Representatives from 1979 to 1991.</p>
<p>He was elected in 2000 to the Senate, where he served until his defeat in 2018 by former Florida governor Rick Scott.</p>
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