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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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 supposed to be a team, ... Team chemistry this year, baby.
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This time, it was Michoud's turn to take a bullet for the team,
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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 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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It's a very bold vision for space exploration,