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Speech by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin: Seeking the Right Stuff

“I believe it is necessary for us – all of us – to take the time to discuss openly the founding principles that led us our nation to embrace space exploration fifty years ago, when it mattered to the whole nation that we overcome our slow start and become the world’s preeminent spacefaring nation. We need to reverse the alarming trends in our nation’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. While the vast majority of our nation’s workforce is neither scientists nor engineers, the four percent who are create most of the goods and services, solve real-world problems, and produce new discoveries and insights about our planet and our universe.”