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Written by spacetravel.org
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Tuesday, 03 May 2005 20:57 |
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A former engineer and executive for the space agency, who was nominated to take over as leader of NASA by president Bush, became the new NASA administrator last week. Michael Griffin was the former head of the space sciences department of Johns Hopkins Universitys Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, USA and has had a lengthy career with the government and in business serving as NASAs associate administrator for exploration in the early 1990s during the Space Exploration Initiative, which was later cancelled by Congress; the Star Wars programme of the early 1980s; an executive for the Orbital Sciences Corporation in the late 1990s, and led a venture capital firm funded by the CIA called In-Q-Tel. Right now he has to make a decision on whether or not to allow the space shuttle to launch if the Columbia Accident Investigation Board does not sign off its inspection of the space craft.
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