# Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr.

> Robert M. Lightfoot Jr. is a former acting administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), serving from January 20, 2017 until April 23, 2018. Succeeding Charles Bolden, Lightfoot became the space agency's acting associate administrator on March 5, 2012. That job became permanent on September 25, 2012. He had previously served as the eleventh director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, from March 2009 until his promotion in March 2012. On March 12, 2018, he announced his retirement from NASA effective April 30, 2018.

*American space agency executive*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1963
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 41.3 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.5 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 6.3 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 40.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

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