http://www.petitiononline.com/griffout/petition.html

This one is quite different from the others in that it focuses on Dr. Griffin’s NPR climate change comments and Earth monitoring reductions and opposes human spaceflight. I imagine that the signers would be a mostly or entirely different set of people since the reasons outlined in the petitions are so different.

For whatever it’s worth (very little I suspect), right now there are 205 signatures on this one.

I’m saying that there is fault to go around. Is it your (absurd) claim that Mike Griffin is blameless?

…if the intent of the Vision was to just heave billions at NASA, and let NASA figure out the implementation, why was the Aldridge Commission even constituted to report to the WH?

I’m not saying that was the intent of the vision. The intent of the vision was for NASA to figure out the implementation using guidance from the Aldridge Commission. Which it did until Mike Griffin took over, at which point, the Aldridge Commission was completely ignored.

I’m not trying to “protect the White House.” As I already said in the post above. (try reading for comprehension)

I could just as well have asked. But I didn’t. For the reasons noted. Try reading for comprehension.

Once Griffin was appointed, the administration basically went on auto-pilot when it came to space policy, because they had much more urgent issues to deal with.

And, you’re saying, that’s why Griffin was at fault in all this. Because the administration “went on auto-pilot” because they had more urgent issues to deal with. Ahh, I see …

One of those more urgent issues was, it seems, a new national space policy, that was issued by the White House in August 2006. That new national space policy explicitly covered all but the Vision (non-NASA civil and defense), deferring VSE related stuff to whatever NASA was doing. Autopilot indeed. They just turned their back on the Vision and didn’t want to deal with it. That is essentially what happened. Oh, they were too busy developing a new national space policy. Doh!

In fact, if the intent of the Vision was to just heave billions at NASA, and let NASA figure out the implementation, why was the Aldridge Commission even constituted to report to the WH?

I’m not trying to “protect the White House.” As I already said in the post above</strong. (try reading for comprehension)

I could just as well have asked. But I didn’t. For the reasons noted. Try reading for comprehension.

Once Griffin was appointed, the administration basically went on auto-pilot when it came to space policy, because they had much more urgent issues to deal with.

And, you’re saying, that’s why Griffin was at fault in all this. Because the administration “went on auto-pilot” because they had more urgent issues to deal with. Ahh, I see …

One of those more urgent issues was, it seems, a new national space policy, that was issued by the White House in August 2006. That new national space policy explicitly covered all but the Vision (non-NASA civil and defense), deferring VSE related stuff to whatever NASA was doing. Autopilot indeed. They just turned their back on the Vision and didn’t want to deal with it. That is essentially what happened. Oh, they were too busy developing a new national space policy. Doh!

In fact, if the intent of the Vision was to just heave billions at NASA, and let NASA figure out the implementation, why was the Aldridge Commission even constituted to report to the WH?

This is the third blog where you’ve pasted this same nonsense (mine, NASAWatch, and here). NASA never had plans to visit Mars, and the lunar mission is national policy, not NASA policy, and it’s not a “publicity run.” This is simply stupid.

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.

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_on_re_us/nasa_chief