Alexander Macdonald

Alexander MacDonald is the Chief Economist at NASA. He was previously the Program Executive for the International Space Station National Laboratory, the Senior Economic Advisor in the Office of the Administrator and was the founding program executive of NASA's Emerging Space Office within the Chief Technologist Office. Macdonald is also the author and editor of a number of NASA reports. His book The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War was published in 2017.

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