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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My heart goes out to all the people affected by this hurricane, ... I will be visiting Stennis and the Michoud Assembly Facility soon to talk with our people.
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Returning to the moon and sustaining a presence there will demonstrate humans can survive on another world.
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Much of it looks the same, ... It's a significant advancement over Apollo.
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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.
It was wonderful; it was magnificent; it was beautiful.
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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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The space program is a long-term investment in our future,
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The space program has had no better friend in its entire existence than Tom DeLay. He's still with us and we need to keep him there.
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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.
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As I have often said publicly, the shuttle is the most amazing machine humans have ever built, and it has been the recipient of the most brilliant engineering that America can provide. The station is a more difficult engineering project, by far, than was Apollo,
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This spacecraft and systems will build upon the foundation of the proven designs and technologies used in the Apollo and space shuttle programs, while having far greater capability.
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This has been a big year for us. We set some goals for ourselves at the beginning of the year, and we accomplished those goals.
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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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The requirement to live off the land will be crucial to our future in space, just as it was to Lewis and Clark.