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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Re:Will they bring in _real_ engineers now?

[AnusesCheeses]

I would rather Cal Tech grads, personally.

Political motivation behind firings

[SuperMario666]

Senior NASA officials and congressional and aerospace industry sources said yesterday that Griffin wants to clear away entrenched bureaucracy, and build a less political and more scientifically oriented team to implement President Bush's plan to return humans to the moon by 2020 and eventually send them to Mars.

So, essentially, we're just throwing out the folks who might have some misgivings about our upcoming pissing contest with China?

Episode VII

[Doc Ruby]

This purge will clear the way nicely for NASA to refocus its science on the Earth. By developing the infrastructure for a bankrupting, warmongering, nonfunctional Star Wars space weapons system.

Re:Will they bring in _real_ engineers now?

[nospam007]

>>I assure you, politicians don't build probes nor space shuttles.
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No, but they keep for example middle-age measure systems still valid here after 95% of the planet switched to modern times a century ago.

As we saw, that downs probes too.