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Rockets, Planes, Wine and Cheese

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
June 11, 2005

NASA Administrator Griffin to Attend Paris Air Show

“NASA Administrator Michael Griffin will attend France’s Paris Air Show, which begins Monday in the suburb of Le Bourget. Griffin will participate in the opening of the U.S. Pavilion and other U.S. government-sponsored events during the first two days of the air show.”

Editor’s note: According to NASA sources, Mike Griffin will speak, and then receive an award from La Confrrie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, Burgundy, France on 11 June 2005. According to an internal NASA memo “the Confrrie des Chevaliers du Tastevin celebrates the food and wine of Burgundy, France, in a spirit of hospitality, generosity, and human warmth. They appreciate merit as well as talent and like to honor courage, personal endeavor, scientific intelligence, and fulfillment of human values.” Reliable sources report that well known haute cuisine space bon vivant John Logsdon will accompany Griffin to the festivities. I’ll try to post pictures from the event.

A NASA Watch reader (with some personal arctic experience) notes: “As an indicator of how essential the French consider wine to be with respect to exploration crew morale, the first winter-over crew at the new European base in the Antarctic has been supplied with about 1000 [sic] – now frozen [sigh] – bottles.”

Check “The first winter-over at Concordia“Then catastrophe strikes. We find the two crates of wine not in their expected position in the +4C container but in the back of a frozen one. An error of labeling they call it. We call it a pretty major **ck up. About one thousand bottles of good wine: Bordeaux, Bourgogne, Alsace, Provence… “

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