Michael Griffin
Michael Griffin
This prominent aerospace engineer and physicist served from 2005 until 2009 as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Previously, he had headed Johns Hopkins University's Space Department.
ProfessionEngineer
Date of Birth1 November 1949
pay
pay as you go and what you can afford.
future investment program space
The space program is a long-term investment in our future,
apollo
It is very Apollo-like ... but bigger. Think Apollo on steroids.
aviation common flight hardware listening opinions people sending signals spend stuff test theme time
If you spend much time on this stuff and aviation accidents, a common theme is that of not listening to the signals the hardware is sending - the test results, the flight results, the dissenting opinions of the people involved.
assembly facility soon talk visiting
I will be visiting Stennis and the Michoud Assembly Facility soon to talk with our people.
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It is important for our employees within NASA to understand that they can appeal a decision by their management. There is a path for everyone to appeal a decision that he or she believes is wrong, and there will be no retribution for appealing.
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The administration remains committed to the vision for space exploration it has announced. That included a number of components, one of which addressed the fly out of the shuttle and the building of the station. We aren't departing from that.
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It is fantastically interesting to me to have a chance, maybe within my lifetime, for scientists to see up-close what those objects look like and to begin our reconnaissance of that region of space.
bold space vision
It's a very bold vision for space exploration,
humans moon presence returning survive sustaining
Returning to the moon and sustaining a presence there will demonstrate humans can survive on another world.
addressing launch shuttle
Right now, we're still addressing what the implications are on the shuttle launch schedule, and if I say I don't know what those are, that's an understatement.
deal future investment problems program space
The space program is a long-term investment in our future. We must deal with our short-term problems without sacrificing our long-term investments in our future.
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Let me be clear. The primary objective for the next several years is to develop a new vehicle for lower orbit and beyond, following the orderly retirement of the space shuttle.
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The knowledge we gained was gained only through many, many losses. That is the perspective through which we must look at our losses in spaceflight.