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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To make a decision to work in the field of space science is almost the ultimate in delayed gratification.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We're supposed to be a team, ... Team chemistry this year, baby.
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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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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,
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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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This spacecraft and systems will build upon the foundation of the proven designs and technologies used in the Apollo and space shuttle programs, while having far greater capability.
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This is not about new money, ... This is about a budget which keeps NASA ... approximately where it is today.
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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.
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Think of it as Apollo on steroids. But understand, we did not set out to make it look like Apollo.