Outspoken: Mike Griffin on the NASA budget
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Mike Griffin, NASA head, defended his decision of cut backs of the agency's science programme and that the White House's plan to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars takes priority over increased science funding. Although he is willing to rethink some specifics, he insisted to the Space Studies Board and the science subcommittee of the NASA advisory Council that the science programme is still healthy and they should respect the political and budgetary constraints.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Planet-hunters seek cheap missions
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Researchers have proposed at least four alternative and much cheaper spacecraft that could capture starlight reflected from other planets beyond the Solar System, since NASA has put the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) missions on indefinite hold in 2006. They believe that direct studies of detected planets is possible only through space missions, however, there are doubts about any of the proposed missions reaching space, due to cutbacks in NASA's science budget.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Griffin has politicized NASA and dodges accountability as his inexplicable outbursts this year have shown. The bottom line is Griffin doesn’t understand that he works for America, not the other way around.