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What would I do with $20,000,000,000?

The buzz around the NASA Administrator nomination heats up as candidates vie for the space agency's leadership and votes.

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Update (20:00 MT): I am now at nearly 1200! I love me my BABloggees! When I was interviewed on The Takeaway last week, I was asked what I'd do with NASA were Obama to pick me to run it. I said I'd make sure programs were run on budget and on time. Once the various programs proved they could do it, I'd open up the budget and see what NASA could really do. Of course, in the pre-interview, when they asked me the same question, I said I'd embezzle several billion dollars and disappear. I'm hard to pin down. Well, maybe I'll get my chance. An anonymous source -- she knows who she is -- informed me that informally, I'm in the running to be the next NASA Administrator. And by informal, I mean really informal: a website has been set up to allow people to nominate and vote for ...

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