Mike Griffin
Mike Griffin
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NASA simply cannot afford to do everything that our many constituencies would like us to do.
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We estimated that there are 18,000 workers who are earning $7 an hour or in some cases they might be earning less than that.
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Playing catcher wore me out last year. I wouldn't mind still playing, but as long as I'm in the lineup and helping the team.
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is very optimistic that the replacement for the shuttle will be built at Kennedy Space Center.
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While we're trying to figure out what to do, lots of dates get floated around. Until we actually caucus as a management team and figure out what our constraints are, we don't have a date except that right now, Bill and I think it's somewhat earlier than October. We'll let you know when we can.
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NASA has been favored by the administration, but it's still a very tough environment.
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What we're trying to figure out is how Katrina has affected the shuttle program, ... If you talk to the folks at Michoud, they're ready to get busy taking care of any tank damage that was done and they want to be back in production in a few weeks. ... Their morale and esprit de corps down there just has to be seen to believed.
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The partnership has proven stronger than the stresses and strains which have been imposed on it, which have been great, ... It has held together. If the United States is able to keep the commitments we've made to the station partners, I think we can take that partnership to the moon.
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What he did tonight, he did all year for us.
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He's been with me for about an hour now.
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He's getting ahead of the hitters and dictating to the hitter what's going to happen. (His cutter) is a finished product, but we're still working on it here and there.
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I can't predict what that value might be, but 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.
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Every time I speak to one of our international partners, they are gung-ho in every possible way about wanting to take this partnership forged on the space station to the moon and Mars. They want to do that,
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Bill (Gerstenmaier) said that was Wayne's assessment at a particularly dark moment last week and we're already off that date,