New NASA Admin Griffin Cleans House

Doug Dante writes "Michael D. Griffin, the new NASA Administrator, has given 20 senior NASA officials their walking papers, in a first purge that can see as many as 50 loose their positions, reports the Washington Post. Included are Associate Administrator for Space Operations William F. Readdy, and his deputy Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael C. Kostelnik (retired)."

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"sell your programs to the executive branch"

[infonography]

Selling Science to the this Congress and the bush administration, that's a losing cause. You need to tell them that Jesus is on Mars. Then they will open the spigots of money. If you think I am kidding watch the people they replace these guys with. Can you say Doctorate in Theology?

Re:"sell your programs to the executive branch"

[Eneff]

For all of Bush's faults (and they are legion), space is a safe science outlet to him. Frankly, he's pro-science as long as that science isn't biology.

Besides, maybe he thinks if we get to space, we can get high enough to meet his god! :)

Re:"sell your programs to the executive branch"

[mmkkbb]

we can get high enough to meet his god! :)

it's not space travel that will get people high enough to meet bush's god.