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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That's going to be the best against the best from all over. We'll see what we're made of.
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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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This is a sad day for NASA. ... But also one of renewed hope for the future of NASA's manned space flight program. The end of the Shuttle Program means that we will begin a new program that will be bigger better and more expensive than anything we have undertaken before. I'm proud of the people that have kept the shuttle going, but the Shuttle Program is done. Its time for the shuttle, like an old dog, to lie on the porch and let the younger dogs chase the rabbits.
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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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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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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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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Returning to the moon and sustaining a presence there will demonstrate humans can survive on another world.
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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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Much of it looks the same, ... It's a significant advancement over Apollo.
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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.