Ben Franklin, addressing the early states during a time of revolution, said: "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang separately." NASA Administrator Michael Griffin recently challenged the astronomical community with this quote, referring to his perception that we have acted in self-interest, worrying only about the funding for our own missions and projects and ignoring the fact that NASA does much more than space-based astronomy, solar system exploration, and research on the sun and its impacts on Earth.
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