Mike Griffin is Still Unhappy
NASA heavy-lift rocket supporters wonder why their project isn’t moving
“In my opinion, NASA’s SLS program is stalled because the White House doesn’t really want to do it,” former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said Friday. Griffin, who led NASA during the previous rocket program that Obama killed, has been a persistent critic of NASA’s current direction. Griffin is now an eminent scholar at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. “You will recall that SLS is derogatorily referenced by some as the ‘Senate Launch System,'” Griffin said in an email response to questions. “That is because the Congress forced it upon the executive branch. The fact that it is the right thing for NASA to do is irrelevant; the White House doesn’t want to do it, and they will do everything possible to prevent it from occurring.”