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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It is entirely appropriate for the administration to announce or espouse whatever political views they have. It is not appropriate for scientists at an executing federal executive agency to be required to adjust, skew, alter, or frame the tone of their scientific work to fit any particular political agenda.
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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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Future generations of Americans will be dealing with the fact other nations, other cultures, other societies will be out there with us, and that's a good thing.
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The Chinese have offered an opportunity ... to discuss cooperation.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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To make a decision to work in the field of space science is almost the ultimate in delayed gratification.
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We at NASA are seeking relief from the (law), which after April next year would preclude cooperation with Russia in relation to certain aspects
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This time, it was Michoud's turn to take a bullet for the team,