Video: Griffin Says Obama Administration Wants to Kill Human Spaceflight
Former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin blasts the Obama Administration’s space policy during a recent panel discussion in Huntsville.
This video, and Griffin’s op-ed today in Space News, erase all doubts as to his intentions: he wants his old job back. And this is the start of his unofficial campaign to reclaim the top spot at NASA. We can look forward to this right up through election day 2012. Fun times ahead!
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This is the man that wanted Orion and Aries, completely un-affordable and un-realistic projects that would not allow affordable space travel. It is not Obama that wants to kill human spaceflight but the Republicans with the insistance on the no mission expensive SLS at the expense of CCDev. The future of human spaceflight is making it cheap enought to make it profitable for comercial ventures for tourisim and then resource extraction from the moon or asteroids.
I think Griffin is taking Obama’s plans as a personal attack. At the end of the day Griffin was an academic with no proper free market experience. He just doesn’t get it an rather support obsolete industries as if NASA was still getting over 1% of the budget. What really rankles me is that this ass just got elected to a 2 year term as president of the AIAA where he now has a chance to do some real damage to the industry with his backward views.
Griffin’s rhetoric about Obama trying to kill human spaceflight is absurd. You can find faults with CCDev, and argue that Orion is a better bet, but to make a claim like that goes beyond any factual assessment of the situation. It sounds like campaign rhetoric (in this case, Griffin trying to get his job back). I think Jack is right; it is very person because it was Griffin’s architecture that Obama has tried to jettison.
I have no doubt that Griffin wants to run NASA in a Republican administration, with Scott Horowitz at his side. If it’s a Rick Perry administration, then the Texas-Utah-Huntsville group will get everything it wants. Hence, Griffin’s exhortations to keep the programs alive and bide their time until 2013.