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In 1991, Abbey became the Senior Director for Civil Space Policy for the National Space Council, a NASA advisory group, working under then-Vice President Dan Quayle. Under Abbey's leadership the council began investigating cooperation with Russia in human spaceflight after the fall of the Soviet Union that same year.
His mother, Bridget Gibby, came from Laugharne in Carmarthenshire; she was working in London when she met George's father, Sam Abbey, and the couple married before moving to Seattle, where George was born on August 21, 1932.
