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Nasa's budget and contracting and was great ambassador for nasa both nationally and internationale and was able to gain support for a robust effort to continuing to explore the unknown. so at least from one of the folks at nasa who had worked with sean o'keefe over the years from '01 to '05, a pretty glowing testimonial to the kind of an individual he was and his determination to bring the space agency through that very difficult period. time, tough budget, overbudget, and, of course, the "columbia" accident in 2003, which he shepherded nasa through. >> john, why did he leave? >> reporter: wel...