New NASA Administrator Named

CheshireCatCO writes "The Bush Administration has nominated Mike Griffin as the new chief administrator of NASA. Griffin currently heads the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and holds degrees in physics, civil, electrical, and aerospace engineering and aerospace science, as well as an MBA. (How did he ever have time to do anything else?) He was also part of the Strategic Defense Initiative in the 80s."

Comments

another mistake...

[nilbog]

What they should do is put a lawyer in that position - then maybe they can get the money they deserve!

Time?

[Anonymous Coward]

How did he ever have time to do anything else?

Good question. You mean, like build stuff?

As a hiring manager, I would be automatically suspicious of anyone who spent that much time in school. Sounds like he's trying to avoid real work.

Bush MO

[Anderlan]

An eminently qualified person gets appointed in the executive gov't, only to be ground to dust as the exec tries to push insane policy on everybody, and everybody (well, not everybody, but anyone who applies one point of IQ to the area affected by the policy) resists.

The Bush NASA policy shift is the crazy policy in this instance. During a war, when we have no money, we are going to embark on manned planetary exploration, taking money away from earth science, excellent unmanned planetary exploration, and civil aviation programs. Why? I have a funny, unserious answer which is troublingly plausible: Bush wants to ignore the global warming problem, so he starves NASA of all its earth science spending, getting rid of a large fraction of the data needed to characterize the problem! ;p

Seriously, Bush wants to save the 2 jobs (I exagerate) Kyoto or other more real action would take away from the current economy, even though the long term economic growth caused by increasing efficiency society-wide would be immeasurable! What a smart guy!