I noted in my article in The Space Review last week that Michael Griffin is not yet well known outside of the space community: on Google the top result for “Michael Griffin” was an escape artist who promises “½ intensley [sic] original magic”. Fortunately, over the last week Dr. Griffin is starting to get a little respect. The Michael Griffin search on Google still returns the escape artist at the top result, but my TSR article is now second (!!) and some SpaceRef pages with copies of his Congressional testimony rank fourth and fifth. Still in the top ten, though, are an Irish estate agent, a University of Texas football player, and a British furniture builder. (The results are a little different if you put his name in quotes.)
The same is true if you’re a little more informal and search on Mike Griffin instead: links to articles on MSNBC.com, SpaceRef, and even this blog show up in the top ten. However, the top entry belongs to Big Mike Griffin, a singer who has “taken the biker – blues community by storm”.
In my netscape search toolbar (powered by google) the space review article is first. The magigican is second.
On a completely unrelated subject, good luck Jeff Foust for the start of the college wrestling season.
Maybe Abbey is a better advisor than he was “leader” – he can look back at all his missed oppotunities and give the old “do as I say, not as I (did)” advise. Installing fear was onw of his best anti-quality tactics.
But really nobody has led NASA since Apollo 12. Since Apollo 13 4-sure. Nobody, so pity all the leaderless well-fed followers atop NASA.
The Apollo 13 unlearned lessons were never incorporated into the space shuttle design, and now a whole nation rides a lemon again into the lemon-aid-needed sunset. But the red sun is rising, as the growing sinosaurus gobbles everything in sight, with a vehicle that improved upon the Soyuz and incorporated one unlearned Apollo 13 lesson into the mission module. Who’s ahead? Who’s the new all-star? Yao Ming?
Maybe Abbey is a better advisor than he was “leader” – he can look back at all his missed oppotunities and give the old “do as I say, not as I (did)” advise. Installing fear was onw of his best anti-quality tactics.
But really nobody has led NASA since Apollo 12. Since Apollo 13 4-sure. Nobody, so pity all the leaderless well-fed followers atop NASA.
The Apollo 13 unlearned lessons were never incorporated into the space shuttle design, and now a whole nation rides a lemon again into the lemon-aid-needed sunset. But the red sun is rising, as the growing sinosaurus gobbles everything in sight, with a vehicle that improved upon the Soyuz and incorporated one unlearned Apollo 13 lesson into the mission module. Who’s ahead? Who’s the new all-star? Yao Ming?
Jeff,
I have really enjoyed the Michael “get some respect” Griffin angle you have been posting. It is just hilarious. Griffin is not exactly a Jim Webb type, is he? At least he sounds like a real hands on kind of guy. I am still waiting to see the CEV fly.