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
delay entire existence friend program space tom
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.
apollo folks
By and large, the Apollo folks got it right,
gained knowledge losses perspective
The knowledge we gained was gained only through many, many losses. That is the perspective through which we must look at our losses in spaceflight.
coming feet
his feet actually were coming up off the ground.
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I'm pretty emotional. This is the most satisfying win since I've been here. Today was real fun. We were real excited for the game. Cory Farmer really stepped up for us; everybody stepped up. I'm so happy that we get to go to Kansas City and represent UIS.
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If next week the guys have a eureka moment on the foam and spot why this big chunk came off and they say, 'OK now we understand it, we truly understand,' and tell us why and we buy it, and the next tank doesn't have this problem, then we'll go forward.
aviation common flight hardware listening opinions people sending signals spend stuff test theme time
If you spend much time on this stuff and aviation accidents, a common theme is that of not listening to the signals the hardware is sending - the test results, the flight results, the dissenting opinions of the people involved.
building committed departing fly included number remains shuttle space vision
The administration remains committed to the vision for space exploration it has announced. That included a number of components, one of which addressed the fly out of the shuttle and the building of the station. We aren't departing from that.
against best
That's going to be the best against the best from all over. We'll see what we're made of.
amazing america brilliant difficult humans machine shuttle station
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,
allow carry heavier larger longer moon people periods space stay
It will be able to carry larger and heavier cargos into space and allow more people to stay on the moon for longer periods of time.
apollo
It is very Apollo-like ... but bigger. Think Apollo on steroids.
apollo unless vehicle wants
Think of it as Apollo on steroids, ... Unless the U.S. wants to get out of manned spaceflight completely, this is the vehicle we need to be building.
apollo
Think of it as Apollo on steroids. But understand, we did not set out to make it look like Apollo.