Published 1/14/2009
by Domenico Montanaro
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From NBC's Jay Barbree CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla -- One of America's decorated jet fighter pilots who was reared by missionary parents in Africa and spoke Swahili before he did English -- retired Air Force Major General Jonathan Scott Gration reportedly has been asked by President-elect Obama to be the new NASA czar.
General Gration's only NASA experience was working in 1982 as a White House Fellow for NASA's deputy administrator Hans Mark . This lack of experience has brought criticism from some quarters including the chairman of the Senate's Space Science and Tech Subcommittee Bill Nelson .
Nelson, the senior Senator from Florida, flew in space himself and when hearing about Gration's possible appointment said, "I think President Bush made a mistake when he appointed someone without NASA experiece in Sean O'Keefe to head the agency."
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