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
assembly confidence decision finish high sequence shuttle space station time together
The decision was to put together an assembly sequence that allows us high confidence that we will finish the space station by the time the shuttle is retired.
baseball four plan three together
We plan on working out together three or four times a week. Year-round baseball is something we can do here.
designed developing earth
What we're really developing is the shuttle's successor, ... The CEV is designed to go to low-Earth orbit.
affordable believe safer venture ventures
We believe this venture safer and more affordable than any other spaceflight ventures that the U.S. has had,
land talking
We're going to land one way or another, one place or another, and all we're talking about is where.
ahead challenge greater represents
What we have ahead of us represents a challenge significantly greater than when we first went to the moon.
bulk space talking
What we are talking about is completely traditional in the bulk of our economy, ... We need more of this in the space enterprise.
change funding goals pace suit
The pace of implementation will change to suit the funding that is made available. All our goals will have to be funding-driven.
hard project ready shuttle space until year
We're going to try as hard as we can to get back in space this year because we have a big construction project we're working on and we need the shuttle to do it, ... So, we're going to try as hard as we can, but we're not going to go until we're ready to go.
behind difficult evaluate giving hope ourselves path plenty remaining tasks time
We are giving ourselves what we hope is plenty of time to evaluate where we are, ... We don't see the tasks remaining before us being as difficult as the path behind us.
largely logistics
We are largely deferring utilization (of the station) and we are paring logistics (flights) to the bone.
complete completion date exact
We may not be able to make the exact completion date that we desire, ... But we will complete it.