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Dancing With Mike Griffin at an Undisclosed Location

By Keith Cowing

NASA Watch

September 23, 2008

Editor’s note: Have a look at the program for this event (below). For an event where NASA supposedly has no sponsorship or endorsement, this thing is bursting at the seams with overt NASA participation – speakers, downlink from space, etc. Look at the folks on NASA’s invitation list (also below) who have confirmed that they will attend. All nice people to be certain – but not a single Griffin critic among them. I guess it is “thank you time” for Mike. Oh well. The museum (remember: the code word is “Chantilly”) is a truly a spectacular place and everyone will have fun. Too bad NASA PAO cannot webcast the event such that the remaining 99.99% of the taxpaying public can hear and see what is going on.

Editor’s update: I stand corrected. This event will be webcast – the media advisory just came out at 11:30 am EDT. This could have been issued some time ago (instead of 24 hrs in advance) – but that would have identified the undisclosed location (“Chantilly”) with the risk that taxpayers might have shown up expecting to attend. That said, this is still a NASA-sponsored event no matter what the dislaimers say and attendance via NASA invitation is largely at Mike Griffin’s personal discretion.

NASA 50th Anniversary Program Format
National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
14390 Air & Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151
202-633-1000

Updated: September 19, 2008

5:30:00 p.m. Musical Rehearsal

7:00:00 p.m. Reception Begins

7:35:00 p.m. Program Participants to be in the Green Room for Briefing (Education Room 1)

Dailey, Harris, Muellner, Dickman, Griffin, Armstrong, Glenn, Jones, Sinatra, de Cou and one representative from gold partners
Review Program Outline
Signing of Commemorative Posters

7:45:00 p.m. Guests head to the Staging Area

Will have front rows marked for AIAA and NASA VIP’s and Gold Partners representatives. No formal seating assignments will be made.

8:00:00 p.m. 50th Anniversary Video Presentation

Countdown of various NASA missions leading to the program opening
Video covers 50 years of inspiration, innovation and discovery

8:10:00 p.m. Gen. Jack Dailey/Dir., Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum

Welcomes guests
Introduces Color Guard

8:13:00 p.m. Color Guard Entrance Presentation of Colors National Anthem

8:17:00 p.m. Gen. Dailey Introduces Leon Harris/Master of Ceremonies

Harris Remarks
Introduces ISS Greeting

8:19:00 p.m. ISS Message

50th anniversary message from space
Harris Introduces Muellner

8:20:00 p.m. George Muellner, AIAA president Remarks

Thank Sponsors
Harris Introduces Glenn

8:28:00 p.m. U.S Sen. John Glenn

Remarks
Harris Introduces Armstrong

8:36:00 p.m. Neil Armstrong

Remarks
Harris Introduces Griffin

8:44:00 p.m. Michael Griffin, NASA administrator

Remarks

8:50:00 p.m. Harris Leads Champagne Toast

Thanks guests
Introduces Emil de Cou, Conductor of Space Philharmonic

8:50:00 p.m. Fly Me to the Moon

Quincy Jones Conducting
Frank Sinatra, Jr., Singing

8:53:00 p.m. Musical Program by Space Philharmonic

Reception Continues

10:30:00 p.m. Program Concluded

8:55:00 p.m. Emil de Cou/National Symphony Orchestra

Introduces Quincy Jones, Composer/Producer
Jones Conducts “Fly Me to the Moon”

9:05:00 p.m. Program Ends

Here is the attendance taken from an internal NASA-approved spreadsheet showed their attendess who have confirmed:

James Abrahamson – NASA LIST
Susan Abrahamson – NASA LIST
Robert Aderholt – NASA LIST
Caroline Aderholt – NASA LIST
Arnold Aldrich – NASA LIST
Buzz Aldrin – NASA LIST
Lois Aldrin – NASA LIST
Tina Karalekas – NASA LIST
Steven Karalekas – NASA LIST
Gale Allen – NASA LIST
Andrew Allen – NASA LIST
Brenda Allen – NASA LIST
John Allen – NASA LIST
Peggy Allen – NASA LIST
Bernice Alston – NASA LIST
Joseph Anderson – NASA LIST
Thomas Anderson – NASA LIST
Jerome Apt – NASA LIST
Richard Arbuthnot – NASA LIST
Neil Armstrong – NASA LIST
Carol Armstrong – NASA LIST
Lee Arnold – NASA LIST
Jeffrey Ashby – NASA LIST
Elizabeth Bacon – NASA LIST
James Bagain – NASA LIST
Jeffrey Bantle – NASA LIST
Bryan Barmore – NASA LIST
Patrick Baudry – NASA LIST
Alan Bean – NASA LIST
Leslie Bean – NASA LIST
James Beggs – NASA LIST
Mary Beggs – NASA LIST
Marina Benigno – NASA LIST
Timothy Bergreen – NASA LIST
Charles Berry – NASA LIST
Ronald Berry – NASA LIST
James Bevis – NASA LIST
Jeff Bingham – NASA LIST
Valerie Ford – NASA LIST
Baruch Blumberg – NASA LIST
Jean Blumberg – NASA LIST
Sherwood Boehlert – NASA LIST
Marianne Boehlert – NASA LIST
Daniel Brandenstein – NASA LIST
Darrell Branscome – NASA LIST
Sylvia Branscome – NASA LIST
Robert Braun – NASA LIST
Karen Braun – NASA LIST
Lewis Braxton – NASA LIST
Roy Bridges, Jr. – NASA LIST
Jan Brown – NASA LIST
Dorothy Brown – NASA LIST
Douglas Brown – NASA LIST
Paul Brown – NASA LIST
Chris Brown – NASA LIST
Tonya Brown – NASA LIST
William Bruner, III – NASA LIST
Cheryl Bruner – NASA LIST
James Buchli – NASA LIST
Jean Buchli – NASA LIST
Jay Buckey – NASA LIST
Jay Buckey – NASA LIST
Gregg Buckingham – NASA LIST
Robert Cabana – NASA LIST
Donald Campbell – NASA LIST
Helen Campbell – NASA LIST
Marchelle Canright – NASA LIST
Michael Medsker – NASA LIST
Charles Carlson – NASA LIST
Gretchen Carlson – NASA LIST
David Carstens – NASA LIST
John Casani – NASA LIST
Steve Cash – NASA LIST
Anthony Ceccacci – NASA LIST
Robert Cenker – NASA LIST
Barbara Cenker – NASA LIST
Frank Cepollina – NASA LIST
Jane Cherry – NASA LIST
John Gaine – NASA LIST
Marvin Christensen – NASA LIST
Rho Christensen – NASA LIST
Tawana Clary – NASA LIST
Ywanda Gamble – NASA LIST
William Claybaugh – NASA LIST
Beverly Kay Rollins – NASA LIST
Rich Clifford – NASA LIST
Lynn Cline – NASA LIST
Kenneth Cline – NASA LIST
Jerrie Cobb – NASA LIST
Robert Cobb – NASA LIST
Jane Cobb – NASA LIST
Raymond Colladay – NASA LIST
Judy Colladay – NASA LIST
Doug Comstock – NASA LIST
Susan Comstock – NASA LIST
Albert Condes – NASA LIST
Jodi Condes – NASA LIST
Deena Contreras – NASA LIST
Stephen Cook – NASA LIST
Douglas Cooke – NASA LIST
Renee’ Cooke – NASA LIST
Thomas Coonce – NASA LIST
Jane Coonce – NASA LIST
Guest TBD Cooper – NASA LIST
Suzan Cooper – NASA LIST
Colleen Cooper – NASA LIST
James Costrell – NASA LIST
Helen Wood – NASA LIST
Richard Covey – NASA LIST
Jeanette Covington – NASA LIST
Donnell Covington – NASA LIST
Pamela Covington – NASA LIST
Linda Jackson – NASA LIST
Norman Crabill – NASA LIST
Mark Craig – NASA LIST
Tom Cremins – NASA LIST
Connie Cremins – NASA LIST
Roger Crouch – NASA LIST
Anne Crouch – NASA LIST
Frank Culbertson, Jr. – NASA LIST
Rebecca Culbertson – NASA LIST
Allen Cutler – NASA LIST
Marian Cutler – NASA LIST
John Dailey – NASA LIST
Mimi Dailey – NASA LIST
Shana Dale – NASA LIST
Edward David, Jr. – NASA LIST
Ann David – NASA LIST
Nancy David Dillon – NASA LIST
Roy Day – NASA LIST
Mary Day – NASA LIST
Thomas DeLay – NASA LIST
Robert Dempsey – NASA LIST
Yannick D’Escatha – NASA LIST
David DeVorkin – NASA LIST
Angela Diaz – NASA LIST
Al Diaz – NASA LIST
Ronald Dittemore – NASA LIST
Nicki Dittemore – NASA LIST
Brian Duffy – NASA LIST
Bonnie Dunbar – NASA LIST
Susan Dupuis – NASA LIST
Pedro Duque – NASA LIST
Paul Dye – NASA LIST
Louise Hose – NASA LIST
Joseph Dyer – NASA LIST
Susan Keen – NASA LIST
Julian Earls – NASA LIST
Joe Edwards, Jr. – NASA LIST
Janet Edwards – NASA LIST
Charles Elachi – NASA LIST
Philip Engelauf – NASA LIST
Kristen Erickson – NASA LIST
John Glowacki – NASA LIST
Roy Estess – NASA LIST
Bruce Evans – NASA LIST
Michael Fagan – NASA LIST
Ed Feddeman – NASA LIST
Eugene Ferrick – NASA LIST
Peggy Finarelli – NASA LIST
Jack Finarelli – NASA LIST
Harold Finger – NASA LIST
Arlene Finger – NASA LIST
Len Fisk – NASA LIST
Patricia Fisk – NASA LIST
Peggy Fleming – NASA LIST
Hudie Fleming – NASA LIST
Marilyn Force – NASA LIST
Janice Engle – NASA LIST
Lucy Fortson – NASA LIST
Edward Frankle – NASA LIST
Myrna Frankle – NASA LIST
Donald Fraser – NASA LIST
Sandra Fraser – NASA LIST
Delma Freeman – NASA LIST
Diana Freeman – NASA LIST
Michael Freilich – NASA LIST
Shoshannah Freilich – NASA LIST
John Frost – NASA LIST
Daniel Gahagan – NASA LIST
Carrie Gahagan – NASA LIST
Charles Gay – NASA LIST
Jennifer Rumburg – NASA LIST
Bobby German – NASA LIST
Alison McNally – NASA LIST
William Gerstenmaier – NASA LIST
Marsh Gerstenmaier – NASA LIST
Gabrielle Giffords – NASA LIST
Rick Gilbrech – NASA LIST
Shelly Gilbrech – NASA LIST
Suzanne Gillen – NASA LIST
Paul Gillen – NASA LIST
John Glenn – NASA LIST
Mrs Glenn – NASA LIST
William Graham – NASA LIST
John Grant – NASA LIST
Catherine Weitz – NASA LIST
Ashlea Graves – NASA LIST
Al Green – NASA LIST
Fred Gregory – NASA LIST
Sue Fenn – NASA LIST
Bill Gregory – NASA LIST
Ron Marusiak – NASA LIST
Mike Griffin – NASA LIST
Rebecca Griffin – NASA LIST
Teresa Grimes – NASA LIST
James Grimes – NASA LIST
Deborah Grubbe – NASA LIST
Angelo Guastaferro – NASA LIST
Marge Malvin – NASA LIST
Johanna Gunderson – NASA LIST
Ralph Haller – NASA LIST
Jim Halsell – NASA LIST
Kathy Halsell – NASA LIST
Jessie Harris – NASA LIST
David Harris – NASA LIST
Sara Harris – NASA LIST
Jean-Pierre Harrison – NASA LIST
Ann Micklos – NASA LIST
Rick Hauck – NASA LIST
Susan Bruce – NASA LIST
W. Michael Hawes – NASA LIST
Robin Henderson – NASA LIST
Tom Henricks – NASA LIST
Frank Morring – NASA LIST
Richard Hieb – NASA LIST
Jeannie Hieb – NASA LIST
Kay Hire – NASA LIST
John Hodge – NASA LIST
Jay Honeycutt – NASA LIST
Peggy Honeycutt – NASA LIST
Scott Horowitz – NASA LIST
Lisa Horowitz – NASA LIST
S. Neil Hosenball – NASA LIST
Russell Howard – NASA LIST
Thomas Howard – NASA LIST
Laura Howard – NASA LIST
Debra Hunt – NASA LIST
Gary Hunt – NASA LIST
Andrew Hunter – NASA LIST
Carol Hunter – NASA LIST
Carolyn Huntoon – NASA LIST
Harrison Huntoon – NASA LIST
Thomas Irving – NASA LIST
Marsha Ivins – NASA LIST
Richard Jackson Jr. – NASA LIST
Robert Jacobs – NASA LIST
Meredith McKay – NASA LIST
Mark Jager – NASA LIST
Harriett Jenkins – NASA LIST
George Dines – NASA LIST
Stephanie Johnson – NASA LIST
Stephen Jurczyk – NASA LIST
Ann Jurczyk – NASA LIST
Deviprasad Karnik – NASA LIST
Vinod Durgam – NASA LIST
Tom Kartsotis – NASA LIST
Steve O’Brien – NASA LIST
Janet Kavandi – NASA LIST
Scott Kelly – NASA LIST
Leslie Kelly – NASA LIST
Robert Kelso – NASA LIST
Ginger Kerrick – NASA LIST
Mary Kerwin – NASA LIST
Dennis Kedzior – NASA LIST
David King – NASA LIST
Mark Kirasich – NASA LIST
Pat Klienknecht – NASA LIST
Norman Knight – NASA LIST
Catherine Koerner – NASA LIST
Stephen Koerner – NASA LIST
Ilan Kroo – NASA LIST
Gerald Kulcinski – NASA LIST
Richard LaBrode, Jr. – NASA LIST
Alan Ladwig – NASA LIST
Debbie Ladwig – NASA LIST
Scrivner Debbie – NASA LIST
Howard O’Brien – NASA LIST
Nicholas Lampson – NASA LIST
JoAnn Larson – NASA LIST
Brendon Capoen – NASA LIST
Roger Launius – NASA LIST
Monique Laney – NASA LIST
Daniel LeBlanc – NASA LIST
David Leckrone – NASA LIST
Cynthia Lee – NASA LIST
Wayne Lee – NASA LIST
Curtis Lewis – NASA LIST
Kathey Foskett – NASA LIST
Chan Lieu – NASA LIST
Robert Lightfoot – NASA LIST
William Lilly – NASA LIST
Guest TBD Lilly – NASA LIST
Gregory Linteris – NASA LIST
Barbara Linteris – NASA LIST
Paul Lockhart – NASA LIST
Mary Lockhart – NASA LIST
Cynthia Lodge – NASA LIST
George Lodge – NASA LIST
John Logsdon – NASA LIST
Roslyn Logsdon – NASA LIST
David Longnecker – NASA LIST
Charlene Longnecker – NASA LIST
Mike Lounge – NASA LIST
Thomas Luedtke – NASA LIST
Ray Lugo III – NASA LIST
Glynn Lunney – NASA LIST
Les Lyles – NASA LIST
Steve MacLean – NASA LIST
Franco Malerba – NASA LIST
Marie-Aude Malerba – NASA LIST
Brenda Manuel – NASA LIST
Frederick Dalton – NASA LIST
Kathryn Manuel – NASA LIST
Phillip Manuel – NASA LIST
John Marburger, III – NASA LIST
Carol Marburger, III – NASA LIST
Hans Mark – NASA LIST
John Marshall – NASA LIST
Jill Marshall – NASA LIST
Frank Martin – NASA LIST
John Mather – NASA LIST
Jane Mather – NASA LIST
Mabel Matthews – NASA LIST
Carol Mays – NASA LIST
Lani McCool – NASA LIST
Joyce McDevitt – NASA LIST
John McDevitt – NASA LIST
Donald McErlean – NASA LIST
Donald McMonagle – NASA LIST
William McNally – NASA LIST
Susan McNally – NASA LIST
Edward McPherson – NASA LIST
Sally McPherson – NASA LIST
Bruce Melnick – NASA LIST
Leland Melvin – NASA LIST
guest tbd Melvin – NASA LIST
Robert Meyer – NASA LIST
Ken Monroe – NASA LIST
Michael Montelongo – NASA LIST
Sedona Montelongo – NASA LIST
John Montgomery – NASA LIST
Cathi Montgomery – NASA LIST
H. Warren Moos – NASA LIST
Alberta Moran – NASA LIST
Paul Morrell – NASA LIST
Candace Morrell – NASA LIST
Michael Moses – NASA LIST
Natalie Beth Moses – NASA LIST
David Mould – NASA LIST
Lisa Mould – NASA LIST
Daniel Mulville – NASA LIST
Rose Mulville – NASA LIST
Altonell Mumford – NASA LIST
Arnell Mumford – NASA LIST
Michael Neufeld – NASA LIST
Karen Levenback – NASA LIST
Benjamin Neumann – NASA LIST
Ellen Katz Neumann – NASA LIST
Arnauld Nicogossian – NASA LIST
Carlos Noriega – NASA LIST
Rick Obenschain – NASA LIST
Georgina Obenschain – NASA LIST
Henry Obering III – NASA LIST
Dick Obermann – NASA LIST
Grace Obermann – NASA LIST
Michael O’Brien – NASA LIST
Patricia O’Brien – NASA LIST
Ellen Ochoa – NASA LIST
Bryan O’Connor – NASA LIST
Susan O’Connor – NASA LIST
Patricia Oliver – NASA LIST
Kathie Olsen – NASA LIST
Guest TBD Olsen – NASA LIST
John Olson – NASA LIST
Georgetta Olson – NASA LIST
Fred Ordway – NASA LIST
Maruja Ordway – NASA LIST
Stephen Oswald – NASA LIST
William Parsons – NASA LIST
James Pawelczyk – NASA LIST
Gary Payton – NASA LIST
Sue Payton – NASA LIST
Trish Pengra – NASA LIST
Richard Fullerton – NASA LIST
Frank Peri – NASA LIST
Richard Law – NASA LIST
Carl Person – NASA LIST
Mary Person – NASA LIST
Kevin Petersen – NASA LIST
Jonathan Pettus – NASA LIST
Dianne Powell – NASA LIST
Dianne Mangel – NASA LIST
Charles Precourt – NASA LIST
James F – NASA LIST
David Radzanowski – NASA LIST
Jennifer Kron – NASA LIST
Gregory Reck – NASA LIST
Michael Reilly – NASA LIST
Michele Reilly – NASA LIST
Steven Ritz – NASA LIST
Elena Cohen – NASA LIST
Patricia Robins – NASA LIST
C. Howard Robins – NASA LIST
Stephen Robinson – NASA LIST
Cindy Robinson – NASA LIST
Sharon Fontana – NASA LIST
Gregory Robinson – NASA LIST
Cynthia Robinson – NASA LIST
Mark Robinson – NASA LIST
Meenakshi Wadhwa – NASA LIST
Lesa Roe – NASA LIST
Ralph Roe – NASA LIST
Kent Rominger – NASA LIST
Christopher Roosa – NASA LIST
Danielle Malek – NASA LIST
Rosemary Roosa – NASA LIST
Francisco Gonzalez – NASA LIST
Allison Rose – NASA LIST
Alex Saltman – NASA LIST
Jeffrey Rosendahl – NASA LIST
Ellen Rosendahl – NASA LIST
Daniel Rosso – NASA LIST
Nahee Cho – NASA LIST
Bertha Ryan – NASA LIST
Elizabeth Haynes – NASA LIST
Michael Ryschkewitsch – NASA LIST
Caroline Ryschkewitsch – NASA LIST
Robie Samanta Roy – NASA LIST
Mimi Geerges – NASA LIST
Robert Satcher, Jr. – NASA LIST
D’Juanna Satcher – NASA LIST
Charles Scales – NASA LIST
Patrick Scheuermann – NASA LIST
Samuel Scimemi – NASA LIST
Nilufer Scimemi – NASA LIST
June Scobee-Rodgers – NASA LIST
Chris Scolese – NASA LIST
Dianne Scolese – NASA LIST
Rick Searfoss – NASA LIST
Keith Sefton – NASA LIST
Carol Sefton – NASA LIST
Christopher Shank – NASA LIST
Amy Shank – NASA LIST
Jaiwon Shin – NASA LIST
Loren Shriver – NASA LIST
Diane Shriver – NASA LIST
Milton Silviera – NASA LIST
Jane Silviera – NASA LIST
Mary Sladek – NASA LIST
Vladimir Tismaneanu – NASA LIST
Marcia Smith – NASA LIST
Kenneth Manning – NASA LIST
Jane Smith-Wolcott – NASA LIST
Hugh Dixon Wolcott – NASA LIST
Ed Smylie – NASA LIST
Robert Spearing – NASA LIST
Elizabeth Spearing – NASA LIST
Ronald Spoehel – NASA LIST
Debbie Spoehel – NASA LIST
Sherwood Spring – NASA LIST
Steven Squyres – NASA LIST
Thomas Stafford – NASA LIST
Howard Stanislawski – NASA LIST
Randy Stone – NASA LIST
Sheree Stovall-Alexander – NASA LIST
Hank Alexander – NASA LIST
Robert Strain – NASA LIST
Karen Strain – NASA LIST
David Stringer – NASA LIST
David Struba – NASA LIST
Katherine Chambers – NASA LIST
Robert Sturgell – NASA LIST
Jana Weir Murphy – NASA LIST
John Sullivan – NASA LIST
Jean Sullivan – NASA LIST
Kathryn Sullivan – NASA LIST
Kenneth Szalai – NASA LIST
Mary Szalai – NASA LIST
Byron Tapley – NASA LIST
Sophia Tapley – NASA LIST
Frederick Tarantino – NASA LIST
Jasmine Tarantino – NASA LIST
Alotta Taylor – NASA LIST
Robert Churchwell – NASA LIST
William Thornton – NASA LIST
W. Simon Thornton – NASA LIST
David Throckmorton – NASA LIST
Pierre Thuot – NASA LIST
Cheryl Thuot – NASA LIST
Alan Title – NASA LIST
Roy Torbert – NASA LIST
Jean Toal Eisen – NASA LIST
Joanne Townsend – NASA LIST
John Townsend, Jr. – NASA LIST
Richard Truly – NASA LIST
Neil de Grasse Tyson – NASA LIST
Mark Uhran – NASA LIST
Diane Powell – NASA LIST
James Voss – NASA LIST
Charles Walker – NASA LIST
Susan Flowers-Walker – NASA LIST
Robert Walker – NASA LIST
Jaisha Wray – NASA LIST
Carl Walz – NASA LIST
Pam Walz – NASA LIST
Myron Webb – NASA LIST
Paula Cleggett – NASA LIST
Michael Weeks – NASA LIST
Damon Wells – NASA LIST
Kim Wells – NASA LIST
Bettie White – NASA LIST
Amos White – NASA LIST
Edward White – NASA LIST
Bonnie White Baer – NASA LIST
Peggy Whitson – NASA LIST
Michael Wholley – NASA LIST
Kathy Wholley – NASA LIST
Bruce Wielicki – NASA LIST
Barbara Wielicki – NASA LIST
Lynette Wigbels – NASA LIST
Gene Rice – NASA LIST
Peter Wilhelm – NASA LIST
Linda Greenway – NASA LIST
Richard Williams – NASA LIST
Jody Williams – NASA LIST
Joyce Winterton – NASA LIST
Patricia Currier – NASA LIST
Richard Wisniewski – NASA LIST
Simon Worden – NASA LIST
Randall Correll – NASA LIST
William Wrobel – NASA LIST
Geoffrey Yoder – NASA LIST
Lauretta Yoder – NASA LIST
Tom Young – NASA LIST
Page Young – NASA LIST
Ann Zulkosky – NASA LIST

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.