65 Quotes by Michael Griffin

It's a very bold vision for space exploration,

The administration remains committed to the vision for space exploration it has announced. That included a number of components, one of which addressed the fly out of the shuttle and the building of the station. We aren't departing from that.

It will be able to carry larger and heavier cargos into space and allow more people to stay on the moon for longer periods of time.

The knowledge we gained was gained only through many, many losses. That is the perspective through which we must look at our losses in spaceflight.

I'm pretty emotional. This is the most satisfying win since I've been here. Today was real fun. We were real excited for the game. Cory Farmer really stepped up for us; everybody stepped up. I'm so happy that we get to go to Kansas City and represent UIS.

If next week the guys have a eureka moment on the foam and spot why this big chunk came off and they say, 'OK now we understand it, we truly understand,' and tell us why and we buy it, and the next tank doesn't have this problem, then we'll go forward.

If you spend much time on this stuff and aviation accidents, a common theme is that of not listening to the signals the hardware is sending - the test results, the flight results, the dissenting opinions of the people involved.

his feet actually were coming up off the ground.

By and large, the Apollo folks got it right,