Michael Griffin

Michael Douglas Griffin

Michael Douglas Griffin (d. 1 Kasım 1949 Aberdeen, Maryland) ABD'li fizikçi, uzay mühendisi ve 13 Nisan 2005 ile 20 Ocak 2009 tarihleri arasında NASA'nın bir önceki baş yöneticisi olarak görev yaptı. NASA'nın başı olarak Dr. Griffin insanlı uzay uçuşlarını, Hubble Uzay Teleskopunun kaderini ve iklim değişikliğini anlamada NASA'nın rolünü uzay ile ilgili çalışmaların geleceği olarak görmekteydi.

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• Dr. Michael Griffin's Official NASA Biography
• "Extending Human Presence into the Solar System: An Independent Study for The Planetary Society on Strategy for the Proposed U.S. Space Exploration Policy"(PDF), by Michael Griffin as one of two co-Team Leaders with seven other co-authors, July 2004, anticipating NASA's Exploration Architecture of 2005 ("We propose here a staged approach to human exploration beyond low Earth orbit... Stage 1 features the development of a new crew exploration vehicle (CEV)... Stages 2 and 3 of the proposed Exploration Architecture will require heavy-lift launch capability... We believe these requirements can best be met, at least initially, by means of designs that utilize existing Space Shuttle components...)
• Testimony by Michael Griffin October 16 2004 (The Future of Human Spaceflight)
• Testimony by Michael Griffin March 10 2004 (Vision for Space Exploration)
• Testimony by Michael Griffin April 7 2004 (Near Earth Objects)
• Testimony by Michael Griffin May 12 2005 (NASA's plans for the future)
• Remarks for American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space 2005 Conference & Exhibition, by Michael Griffin, August 31, 2005 ("The human imperative to explore and settle new lands will be satisfied, by others if not by us. Humans will explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond. It's simply a matter of which humans, when, what values they will hold, and what languages they will speak, what cultures they will spread. What the United States gains from a robust program of human space exploration is the opportunity to carry the principles and values of western philosophy and culture along on the absolutely inevitable outward migration of humanity into the solar system and, eventually, beyond.")
• "NASA's Griffin: 'Humans Will Colonize the Solar System'", Interview, Washington Post, September 25, 2005 ("I don't know when that day is, but there will be more human beings who live off the Earth than on it. We may well have people living on the moon. We may have people living on the moons of Jupiter and other planets. We may have people making habitats on asteroids. ...I don't know the date -- but I know that humans will colonize the solar system and one day go beyond.")
• Is NASA in Outer Space? Not After a Surprise Round of Budget Cuts, Michael Benson, op-ed, The Washington Post, April 2, 2006
• Inner Compass - "Space Exploration: What's it Worth?" TV Interview
• Inner Compass - "Space Exploration: What's it Worth?" audio mp3