Mike Griffin
Mike Griffin
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I would like to see us build on our performance at the John Burns last month. There will be some very good teams in this tournament, so it will be a challenge. We played well there last year, so that should give us some confidence this weekend.
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NASA has been favored by the administration, but it's still a very tough environment.
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He's a high-energy player. Every team wants a player like that.
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He's been with me for about an hour now.
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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,
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The main thing you are seeing here today is the decision to put together an assembly sequence that allows us to have very high confidence we will finish the space station by the time the shuttle must be retired. It's the same station. The end product is very much as we envisioned it.
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I knew what kind of young man he was. He is very straightforward. He is the kind of leader that every coach would love to have. If he has something that he wishes to contribute, it's going to come straight on, but most of the time he leads by example.
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is very optimistic that the replacement for the shuttle will be built at Kennedy Space Center.
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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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NASA simply cannot afford to do everything that our many constituencies would like us to do.
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Any time I can have more flexibility and control of my money, I think that is a good thing - as long as it is optional.
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This is going to be the last hurrah.
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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.