Lori Garver and Mike Griffin’s tête-à-tête at a Dec. 8, 2008 book reception at NASA Headquarters served as fodder for an Orlando Sentinel story on tensions between Griffin and the Obama transition team.

Lori Garver, who was the head of President Obama’s NASA transition team before she became NASA deputy administrator, reflects on the 2008-2009 transition and what NASA should expect after this November’s presidential election.

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Brian Berger is editor in chief of SpaceNews.com and the SpaceNews magazine. He joined SpaceNews.com in 1998, spending his first decade with the publication covering NASA. He was named senior staff writer in 2004, a position he held until being named...