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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's new boss is changing his top officers as the space agency races toward meeting President Bush's goal of sending astronauts to the moon in a decade or so and later on to Mars.
Administrator Michael Griffin, on the job for just two months, wants to speed up development of a shuttle replacement and is putting people in the job who share that objective. A NASA spokesman says such sweeping changes are normal in changing regimes.
Toward that end, Griffin announced Monday that Doug Cooke, a deputy in NASA's exploration systems office, will take charge of the department in an acting position. He replaces Craig Steidle, who is resigning effective June 24.
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