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Published 1/14/2009 at msnbc.com: Politics
President-elect Barack Obama has asked retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, one of his top foreign policy and military advisers during the campaign, to take the helm of NASA, a source informed of the selection has told Space News.
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