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Cordova, 46, who has been the head of Penn State's department of astronomy and astrophysics since 1989, will take a temporary leave from the school to work at NASA's Washington, D.C., offices.
"NASA is a civil space agency whose purpose is to explore science and technology in space for the benefit of the whole nation," says Cordova. "A couple of decades ago, getting to the moon was a mission people could easily understand. In the view of this administrator [Goldin], many of today's NASA programs look too exclusive...
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