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Bush Names Missile Defense Veteran to Head NASA
Now that the ChiComs are in the space race, NASA gets a missile defense kinda guy...Michael Griffin, a former chief engineer at NASA who has also worked on missile defense systems, was named on Friday as President Bush's choice to head the U.S. space agency. Griffin is head of the space department at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, which works on civilian and military space programs, including missile and air defense and national security analysis. Previously, he was president of In-Q-Tel, the CIA's private venture capital arm, and worked at Orbital Sciences Corp., which develops rockets and missiles. Earlier in his career, Griffin served as NASA's chief engineer and as deputy for technology at the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, founded in 1984 to develop a space-based anti-missile defense popularly known as "Star Wars." The program was abandoned in 1993. The announcement Bush intends to nominate Griffin drew quick bipartisan praise from members of both houses of Congress and from the space-boosting Planetary Society. Posted by: Seafarious 2005-03-12 |
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