US Vice President Kamala Harris sworn in as new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) chief Bill Nelson.

This was announced on Twitter by the spokesman for the Deputy Chief of Staff Sabrina Singh..

The ceremony took place in the Eisenhower administration building, which is part of the White House complex. According to the vice president's office, the wife of the new head of the US space department, Nan Ellen Nelson, his son Bill Nelson Jr. and two former NASA leaders, Charles Bolden (2009-2017) and James Bridenstine (2018-2021), took part in it..

A pretty amazing way to kick off the week. @VP swears in NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and yes, a moon rock was present. pic. twitter. com / RgOQ1EiCfl - Sabrina Singh (@ SabrinaSingh46) May 3, 2021 Congressional Senate unanimously confirmed Nelson in office on April 29. President Joe Biden introduced former astronaut and legislator Nelson to the Senate in March.

The current head of NASA is 78 years old, he is a member of the currently ruling Democratic Party, three times elected to the Senate from the state of Florida, where he was born and lives.

In the upper house of Congress he worked in 2001-2019. Formerly a member of the House of Representatives of Congress (1979-1991). During his work in the Senate and the House of Representatives, he also headed the subcommittees on space. Member of NASA Advisory Board since 2019. In 1986 he made a space flight as part of the STS-61C mission as part of the Space Shuttle program. Nelson becomes the second-ever serving member of Congress and the first member of the House of Representatives to travel to space.