The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee has scheduled the confirmation hearing for Michael Griffin, the president’s nominee to be the next NASA administrator. The hearing is scheduled for 10 am on Tuesday, April 12, in the committee’s regular hearing location, Russell 253. The timing of the hearing is interesting, coming on the anniversaries of both Yuri Gagarin’s first flight as well as the launch of STS-1, although I imagine the timing is just coincidence. (However, perhaps Dr. Griffin will stick around and attend Yuri’s Night that evening.) Griffin is actually one of several nominees who will appear before the committee at the same time: the others are for primarily transportation-related bodies, like the Federal Railroad Administration, as well as Consumer Product Safety Commission.
