What to expect from the controversial new choice as NASA boss

Mike Pence, US vice president (left) and Jim Bridenstine — Jim Bridenstine (right) is the new head of NASA

Everything about the way Jim Bridenstine has come to be the new NASA administrator is unusual. From the way that Bridenstine, a climate-change sceptical, non-scientist, Republican politician from Oklahoma, campaigned for the job, to the drawn-out, controversy-laden seven months it took to get him confirmed in the role by the US Congress, to the sheer amount of attention the proceedings garnered.

But as the world is adjusting to the discomfort of the forceful paradigm changes that have come with the Trump administration, we may have been naive to …

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