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#1 2005-04-14 09:55:15
- BWhite
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Re: Mike Griffin confirmed
I found this http://www.klydemorris.com/strips.cfm?s … 34]cartoon via Rand Simberg who properly credits Keith Cowing.
The cartoon is pretty funny.
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Give someone a sufficient [b][i]why[/i][/b] and they can endure just about any [b][i]how[/i][/b]
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#2 2005-04-14 10:10:08
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Re: Mike Griffin confirmed
*Surprise!
:hm:
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#3 2005-04-14 10:32:18
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What I think is a rather interesting factoid is that Mr. Griffin had a hand in an old study... "FLO" (First Lunar Outpost). It was the follow-up to the 90 day commission report that was DOA during Bush's fathers term.
Take a look at it, anything sound familiar? 
http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Sli … ld051f.htm
A few modifications to this, such as EELV use, some newly developed technologies that didn't figure in then, and a need for a project for Prometheus, and I think we have an idea of what to expect.
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#4 2005-04-14 10:37:56
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Yup started searching the Nasa site and some of the documents are still available.
The problem is the price scared any chance for getting started back then and caused little hope for anything but a pile of dead trees to occur.
Maybe this time will be different but some would say not unit shuttle and ISS are dead can we move forward.
I would say that it is not the only problems but they are the most costly at this point.
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#5 2005-04-14 15:04:08
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Re: Mike Griffin confirmed
http://www.space.com/news/050414_meet_mike.html]Call me "Mike"
Although much has been made of Griffin’s half dozen advanced degrees by the press and lawmakers singing his praises, Griffin invited NASA employees Thursday to address him by his first name.
“I’m not ‘sir’, I’m not ‘Dr. Griffin’, I’m not anything besides Mike or Michael,” Griffin said. “The NASA administrator is not royalty and I am certainly not. I’m just another person.”
Give someone a sufficient [b][i]why[/i][/b] and they can endure just about any [b][i]how[/i][/b]
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#6 2005-04-14 15:12:18
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Mike, the Hatchet Man. :laugh:
Well, you get Mars, but it comes at a price...
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#7 2005-04-14 15:13:53
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http://www.space.com/news/050414_meet_mike.html]Call me "Mike"
Although much has been made of Griffin’s half dozen advanced degrees by the press and lawmakers singing his praises, Griffin invited NASA employees Thursday to address him by his first name.
“I’m not ‘sir’, I’m not ‘Dr. Griffin’, I’m not anything besides Mike or Michael,” Griffin said. “The NASA administrator is not royalty and I am certainly not. I’m just another person.”
*Sounds like my kind of person. :up:
:edit: He looks quite a bit younger than his stated age; was surprised to read he's 55.
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#8 2005-04-14 15:19:25
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LOL, that's the way.
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#10 2005-04-14 18:05:43
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Re: Mike Griffin confirmed
Everyone was occupied with the Bolton hearing.
"Yes, I was going to give this astronaut selection my best shot, I was determined when the NASA proctologist looked up my ass, he would see pipes so dazzling he would ask the nurse to get his sunglasses."
---Shuttle Astronaut Mike Mullane
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