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Rocket scientist tapped as next NASA chief Mike Griffin has experience in many facets of space effort By Brian Berger Space News staff writer Space.com Updated: 8:50 p.m. ET March 11, 2005
WASHINGTON - The White House confirmed Friday that President Bush has nominated Mike Griffin, head of the space department at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, to be the next NASA administrator.
Griffin, a rocket scientist with an M.B.A., is a veteran aerospace executive who has held a variety of senior-level positions at the Pentagon, at NASA and in industry. Word of Griffin's nomination was first reported earlier in the day by Space.com's sister publication, Space News.
He is replacing former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe. who announced his resignation last December, citing personal and financial reasons. O'Keefe took a job as chancellor of Louisiana State University's Baton Rouge campus. He served three years as NASA's chief. At present, veteran shuttle astronaut Frederick Gregory has been acting as interim administrator.
Approval from lawmakers Griffin's nomination met with the immediate approval of several lawmakers who would have to work closely with him if he is confirmed by the Senate.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., an influential member of the Senate Appropriations Committee who knows Griffin because of his work at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, said the president made "an outstanding choice."
In a statement issued Friday afternoon, Mikulski said Griffin "has the right combination of experience in industry, academia and government service. He has a proven record of leadership and a passion for science and exploration. I welcome his nomination."
House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert, whose committee has called on Griffin to testify as an expert witness on NASA issues, also endorsed the president's choice.
"We are extremely pleased that the president has nominated Mike Griffin to be NASA Administrator," Boehlert said in a statement. "Dr. Griffin has long been a resource to the Science Committee, both as a public witness and in providing private counsel. He has broad expertise, knows NASA inside and out, and is an imaginative and creative thinker and leader. He is also known for his candor and directness. We look very forward to working with Dr. Griffin at this critical time for NASA."
Varied background When the first President Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative in 1989 in an attempt to move NASA out of its low-Earth-orbit rut and on to Mars, Griffin was picked to lead the ill-fated effort, serving as NASA's chief technologist and associate administrator for exploration. He left the agency in 1993.
During much of the 1990s, Griffin worked in several leadership positions at Orbital Sciences Corp., a Dulles, Va.-based company that builds satellites and rockets.
Before returning to APL in April 2004 to lead the lab's space work, Griffin was the chief operating officer of In-Q-Tel, a private nonprofit enterprise funded by the Central Intelligence Agency to invest in companies developing leading-edge technologies.
During the late 1980s, Griffin worked as the technology deputy for the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, an early predecessor to the Missile Defense Agency.
Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Simon "Pete" Worden, who has known Griffin for more than 20 years, said Griffin is an "absolutely superb choice" for NASA administrator.
"This means the administration is serious about a new direction for the program," Worden said. "He will make the president's vision a reality."
Courtney Stadd, an aerospace management consultant who headed up the NASA transition for Bush and served as NASA's White House liaison and chief of staff until July 2003, said Griffin has the right mix of technical savvy and management experience to lead NASA. "He brings a really unique and really important set of skills that is exactly what the agency needs at this point in
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Pusher robot will referee.
Shover Robot will referee much more.
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Why not do a daily summary of multiple CeBIT stories? Because then there would be far less potential for duplicate /. stories about CeBIT, which just wouldn't be as fun.
There's a Wikipedia article on Legos if anyone's curious to learn more.
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Matt Turner may have turned his Mac mini into a Volkswagen, but we've turned his Web site into a Yugo.
Oh, well, at least there's MirrorDot.
So tell me again how this is "free-as-in-beer?"
It's like shelling out oodles of cash to go to Cancun for Spring Break where you'll find free beer -- that's how this is "free as in beer."
The DrunkenBlog site is very slow, so here's a MirrorDot mirror of it.
Rocket scientist tapped as next NASA chief
Mike Griffin has experience in many facets of space effort
By Brian Berger
Space News staff writer
Space.com
Updated: 8:50 p.m. ET March 11, 2005
WASHINGTON - The White House confirmed Friday that President Bush has nominated Mike Griffin, head of the space department at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, to be the next NASA administrator.
Griffin, a rocket scientist with an M.B.A., is a veteran aerospace executive who has held a variety of senior-level positions at the Pentagon, at NASA and in industry. Word of Griffin's nomination was first reported earlier in the day by Space.com's sister publication, Space News.
He is replacing former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe. who announced his resignation last December, citing personal and financial reasons. O'Keefe took a job as chancellor of Louisiana State University's Baton Rouge campus. He served three years as NASA's chief. At present, veteran shuttle astronaut Frederick Gregory has been acting as interim administrator.
Approval from lawmakers
Griffin's nomination met with the immediate approval of several lawmakers who would have to work closely with him if he is confirmed by the Senate.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., an influential member of the Senate Appropriations Committee who knows Griffin because of his work at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, said the president made "an outstanding choice."
In a statement issued Friday afternoon, Mikulski said Griffin "has the right combination of experience in industry, academia and government service. He has a proven record of leadership and a passion for science and exploration. I welcome his nomination."
House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert, whose committee has called on Griffin to testify as an expert witness on NASA issues, also endorsed the president's choice.
"We are extremely pleased that the president has nominated Mike Griffin to be NASA Administrator," Boehlert said in a statement. "Dr. Griffin has long been a resource to the Science Committee, both as a public witness and in providing private counsel. He has broad expertise, knows NASA inside and out, and is an imaginative and creative thinker and leader. He is also known for his candor and directness. We look very forward to working with Dr. Griffin at this critical time for NASA."
Varied background
When the first President Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative in 1989 in an attempt to move NASA out of its low-Earth-orbit rut and on to Mars, Griffin was picked to lead the ill-fated effort, serving as NASA's chief technologist and associate administrator for exploration. He left the agency in 1993.
During much of the 1990s, Griffin worked in several leadership positions at Orbital Sciences Corp., a Dulles, Va.-based company that builds satellites and rockets.
Before returning to APL in April 2004 to lead the lab's space work, Griffin was the chief operating officer of In-Q-Tel, a private nonprofit enterprise funded by the Central Intelligence Agency to invest in companies developing leading-edge technologies.
During the late 1980s, Griffin worked as the technology deputy for the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, an early predecessor to the Missile Defense Agency.
Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Simon "Pete" Worden, who has known Griffin for more than 20 years, said Griffin is an "absolutely superb choice" for NASA administrator.
"This means the administration is serious about a new direction for the program," Worden said. "He will make the president's vision a reality."
Courtney Stadd, an aerospace management consultant who headed up the NASA transition for Bush and served as NASA's White House liaison and chief of staff until July 2003, said Griffin has the right mix of technical savvy and management experience to lead NASA. "He brings a really unique and really important set of skills that is exactly what the agency needs at this point in
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