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NASA Leader in New Jersey

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen welcomed Dr. Michael Griffin, Administrator of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA), to the County College of Morris in Randolph on Friday, April 18. Dr. Griffin met with representatives of New Jersey’s active scientific community and with New Jersey educators, students, faculty and staff:

In his introductory remarks to the gathering of over 150 persons, Frelinghuysen praised Administrator Griffin, saying he “knows NASA’s heritage and he has a vision for its future. As Gemini Astronaut Michael Collins once said, ‘It's human nature to stretch, to go, to see, to understand. Exploration is not a choice, really; it's an imperative.’ And NASA is the agency that spearheads that exploration and leads us to new discoveries.

NASA has truly met the challenge laid out by President Lyndon Baines Johnson over 30 years ago when he said: ‘In the eyes of the world, first in space means first, period; second in space is second in everything.’

And here on earth, there is no better way to emphasize to our elementary, middle and high schools the importance of science and mathematics, than through the work and contributions of NASA. “