The Nationwide Area Society (NSS) congratulates George Whitesides on his profitable Congressional marketing campaign. Whitesides was declared the winner of California’s twenty seventh Congressional district after a hotly contested race. His opponent, Mike Garcia, gracefully conceded on Monday.
Bruce Pittman, member of the NSS Board of Administrators and long-serving former NSS COO, “On behalf of NSS management and our members we congratulate George on profitable his race to signify the twenty seventh District of California within the Home of Representatives. We hope that his time as Government Director of the NSS will present perception and potential on this thrilling new chapter of his profession. These are thrilling and essential instances for area exploration and growth for each america and the world, and we hope that George’s expertise with the NSS, NASA, and Virgin Galactic shall be worthwhile belongings to the Congress as we chart our course into the long run.”
Whitesides brings a powerful background in spaceflight, technical endeavors, and coverage to his seat. Throughout his profession, he served because the Government Director of the Nationwide Area Society, the CEO of spaceflight firm Virgin Galactic, and NASA Chief of Workers underneath Charlie Bolden, the place he was awarded the company’s Distinguished Service Medal, its highest recognition. He has additionally served as co-Chair of the World Financial Discussion board’s World Future Council on Area Applied sciences, has been a member of Caltech’s Area Innovation Council and Princeton College’s Advisory Council for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and is a fellow of the UK Royal Aeronautical Society and an affiliate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Whitesides is a graduate of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Faculty of Public and Worldwide Affairs and King’s School at Cambridge. He was additionally a Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia.
“NSS, as a non-partisan group, helps the participation of each present and former NSS leaders within the political course of,” mentioned Dale Skran, NSS COO and Senior Vice President. “Though not the primary Consultant related to NSS—Newt Gingrich serves on the NSS Board of Governors—George seems to be the primary NSS chief elected to Congress.”
Whitesides continues an extended custom of former leaders of the Nationwide Area Society getting into public service with distinction in each events (the NSS is staunchly nonpartisan). These embody former NSS Government Vice President Scott Tempo, who served because the Government Secretary for the Nationwide Area Council from 2017 to 2021 underneath a Republican President, and former NSS Government Director Lori Garver, who was the Deputy Administrator of NASA from 2009 by 2013 underneath a Democratic President.
