Mike Griffin Concedes Defeat
Mike Griffin Concedes Defeat
NASA chief: China will beat us back to the moon, AP
“I personally believe that China will be back on the moon before we are,” NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a low-key lecture in Washington two weeks ago, marking the space agency’s 50th anniversary, still a year away. “I think when that happens, Americans will not like it. But they will just have to not like it.”
Editor’s note: When he first arrived Mike Griffin used the Chinese threat as a way to generate support in Congress and elsewhere for his accelerated exploration architecture. Now he has apparently given up.
Gee, if NASA’s Administrator is ready to admit defeat on something that is still perhaps a decade away why should anyone at NASA try and work harder now? What a nice way to motivate your workforce, Mike.