Lori Garver's official NASA Deputy Administrator Portrait. Credit: NASA

In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver: A lightning rod for every controversy ever raised about the Obama administration’s strategy for the U.S. space agency.

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SHOW NOTES:

Lori defending the relevance of NASA … in 1997 (fast forward to 12:14 for Lori stuff).

SpaceNews.com editor Brian Berger’s exit interview with Lori from 2013.

Dan Leone is a SpaceNews staff writer, covering NASA, NOAA and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. He earned a bachelor’s degree in public communications from the American University in Washington.