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Transcripts Of Griffin, Nelson Warning NASA Faces Tough Funding Challenges

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Monday, May 26th, 2008

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This is the tape-recorded transcript of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, speaking unexpectedly and extemporaneously, and then the scheduled speaker, Sen. Bill Nelson (D- Fla.), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee space, aeronautics and related sciences subcommittee. They spoke at a luncheon of the Washington Space Business Roundtable at the University Club, 1135 16th Street N.W., in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, May 22, 2008. Michael Griffin "I speak best from extensive notes." [holding a small piece of paper…

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