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
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The pace of implementation will change to suit the funding that is made available. All our goals will have to be funding-driven.
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We may not be able to make the exact completion date that we desire, ... But we will complete it.
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What we are talking about is completely traditional in the bulk of our economy, ... We need more of this in the space enterprise.
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But the space program is a long-term investment in our future. We must deal with our short-term problems while not sacrificing our long-term investments in our future. When we have a hurricane, we don't cancel the Air Force. We don't cancel the Navy. And we're not going to cancel NASA.
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I felt a lot more comfortable this season, and I think we played much better as a team. My job wasn't just to look for my own shot, but to get everyone else involved so we could win games.
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I fell asleep almost as soon as I got on the plane I was so tired. My neck was killing me,
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If we launch without setback, 16 (shuttle) flights are required to assemble the ISS and we'll finish sometime early in fiscal 2010, so we have, we believe, substantial schedule margin, to complete our job.
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What we have ahead of us represents a challenge significantly greater than when we first went to the moon.
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Going well beyond Apollo, we seek the ability to land and conduct exploration activities anywhere on the moon, including on the far side or in the polar regions,
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He is the best of the best, and we have been fortunate to have his steady hand at NASA's helm during the most troubled period in NASA's history.
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I can't imagine it. I believe they're going to put points on the board.
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We focused on redefining the station assembly sequence in fact to concentrate on assembly, and we are largely deferring utilization and we are paring logistics to the bone. We don't like that, but confronted with a choice between having a high confidence to be able to complete the assembly of the station and deferring utilization, or utilizing it heavily as we built it and possibly not finishing, we chose the former course.
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We're talking about returning to the Moon in 2018. There will be a lot more hurricanes and a lot more other natural disasters to befall the United States and the world in that time, I hope none worse than Katrina,
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We're supposed to be a team, ... Team chemistry this year, baby.