“I was trying to take my In-Q-Tel experience and apply it, transfer it from the CIA over to NASA.”
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Michael D. Griffin
Michael Douglas Griffin is an American physicist and aerospace engineer who served as the under secretary of defense for research and engineering from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as deputy of technology for the Strategic Defense Initiative, and as administrator of NASA from April 13, 2005, to January 20, 2009. As NASA administrator, Griffin oversaw such areas as private spaceflight, future…
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science · American physicist and aerospace engineer (born 1949) · military flight engineer · physicist · politician · also Michael D. Griffin, Griffin
Born 1 November 1949 · Q357956
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2026· 7 entries
Yahoo Sports: Robert Griffin III Reveals How Mack Brown and Texas Nearly Changed Baylor Football History
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Door County Pulse: Rachel And Griffin Head To Camp Door
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Bluegrass Today: Sarah Griffin and Brady Wallen to Darren Nicholson Band
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FOX Sports: Joel Klatt, Robert Griffin III and Brady Quinn compare themselves to current QBs in CFB 🏈 Joel Klatt Show
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Griffin received the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
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Griffin received the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal 'for shaping U
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2020· 3 entries
Griffin announced that he was leaving his position as USD(R&E) to pursue a private sector opportunity
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Signaled that the United States would be making a major investment in production of hypersonic weaponry at scale
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Michael Griffin was named an IEEE fellow (January 1, 2020)
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2018· 1 entry
Asteroid 159999 Michaelgriffin was named after him
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2017· 1 entry
Reuters reported that Griffin was nominated by President Donald Trump to be Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E))
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2012· 1 entry
The Schafer Corporation announced that Griffin would assume the role of chairman and CEO at the company
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2011· 1 entry
Griffin was awarded honorary DE degree from the University of Notre Dame
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2009· 2 entries
Griffin accepted a position as eminent scholar and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
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In which he praised NASA for its recovery from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and urged employees to support the new administrator, whoever it may be
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2008· 1 entry
Griffin was awarded the title of 74th Honorary Chancellor at Florida Southern College during its annual Founder's Day Ceremony
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2007· 3 entries
Griffin said that NASA aims to put a man on Mars by 2037
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At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Griffin said:
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Was included in the TIME 100, the magazine's list of the 100 most influential people
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2005· 1 entry
Was appointed NASA administrator, where he pushed for commercial cargo and crew transportation services
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2004· 3 entries
Testimony to Congress on the future of human spaceflight, he stated, "For me, the single overarching goal of human space flight is the human settlement of the Solar System, and eventually beyond
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Mandated that NASA must use the Space Shuttle to finish construction of the International Space Station by the end of 2010
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Griffin was named head of the Space Department at Johns Hopkins University APL
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1995· 1 entry
Griffin authored a report published by The Heritage Foundation, "Ending America's Vulnerability to Ballistic Missiles", offering recommendations for advancing the recently cancelled Brilliant Pebbles program
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1991· 2 entries
After Zubrin presented his ideas about a Mars mission architecture with Griffin, then NASA Associate Administrator for Exploration, Griffin presented these ideas to then NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin
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Griffin was the president and CTO of Orbital Sciences, then a small entrepreneurial space launch company, with contracts from the government to build low-cost rocket launchers for the Brilliant Pebbles program
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1949· 1 entry
Born 1949-11-01.
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