Neil deGrasse Tyson

Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, NASA advisory Council member listens during a meeting of the council at the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill. The NASA Advisory Council will be chaired by former Senator and Apollo astronaut Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt. Former Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong joins Schmitt as one of the distinguished experts on the council, along with Gen. Lester L. Lyles, USAF (Ret.), former commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and Dr. Charles F. Kennel, director, Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Photo Credit: “NASA/Bill Ingalls”