NASA official joins search for extraterrestrial life

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SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- G. Scott Hubbard, who has led a NASA research center since 2002 and investigated the space shuttle Columbia tragedy, is stepping down to accept a position with an organization that studies the possibility of life beyond Earth, he said Monday.

Hubbard, 57, will occupy the Carl Sagan Chair for the Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute, effective February 15.

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NASA AMES CENTER DIRECTOR JOINS SETI INSTITUTE

G. Scott Hubbard, director of NASA Ames Research Center, located in California?s Silicon Valley, today announced his personal plans for the future. He has accepted a new assignment as holder of the Carl Sagan Chair for the Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., effective Feb. 15, 2006.

As holder of the Carl Sagan Chair, Hubbard will work to strengthen the SETI Institute?s visibility and support for its research into the origin of life, and how it might be found on other worlds, particularly the planets and moons of our solar system.
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