NASA chief’s wife: Keep my spouse

[unhappycamper]

NASA chief’s wife: Keep my spouse
By Seth Borenstein - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Dec 31, 2008 16:55:04 EST

WASHINGTON — Late on Christmas Eve, one last wish was sent, by e-mail: Please let NASA Administrator Michael Griffin keep his job. It was from his wife.

Rebecca Griffin, who works in marketing, sent her message with the subject line “Campaign for Mike” to friends and family. It asked them to sign an online petition to President-elect Barack Obama “to consider keeping Mike Griffin on as NASA Administrator.”

She wrote, “Yes, once again I am embarrassing my husband by reaching out to our friends and ‘imposing’ on them. ... And if this is inappropriate, I’m sorry.”

The petition drive, which said the President Bush appointee “has brought a sense of order and purpose to the U.S. space agency,” was organized by Scott “Doc” Horowitz of Park City, Utah, an ex-astronaut and former NASA associate administrator.

A cash-strapped NASA last week also sent — by priority mail costing $6.75 a package — copies of a new NASA book called “Leadership in Space: Selected Speeches of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, May 2005-October 2008.”


Rest of article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/12/ap_nasa_chief_petition_123108w/%2e

[frogcycle]

1. Sounds like a couple of excellent reasons to look for a new NASA leader

Plus the fact that 43 appointed him. That in itself is enough to suggest he probably is opposed to anything creative, scientific, or forward-looking.

[Ian David]

2. You mean the Young-Earth Creationist Global Warming Denier...

... who refused to cooperate with President-Elect Obama's Transition Team?

I say, fuck him and the rocket he rode in on.