{author}        National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          20-May-2005

{description}   KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin
                (left) tours Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1 where Space
                Shuttle Atlantis is currently being processed for the second
                Return to Flight mission, STS-121. He is accompanied by NASA
                ground systems engineer Doug Moore. This is Griffin's first
                official visit to Kennedy Space Center. Griffin is the 11th
                administrator of NASA, a role he assumed on April 14, 2005.
                Griffin was nominated to the position in March while serving as
                the Space Department head at Johns Hopkins University's Applied
                Physics Laboratory in Baltimore. A registered professional
                engineer in Maryland and California, Griffin served as chief
                engineer at NASA earlier in his career. He holds numerous
                scientific and technical degrees including a Ph.D. in Aerospace
                Engineering from the University of Maryland.

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