Interview With Lori Garver
Video: A Conversation with NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver
“At the 28th National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs SpaceRef sat down with NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver for a short conversation.”
Additional SpaceRef coverage of the National Space Symposium
Completely vacuous! Is this part of the Obama campaign: Lori, working-mom?
If you think Garver is vacuous like space jski then she snowed you all the way. Brilliantly vacuous because she’s a shrewd political operator. You got it, working-mom, but intellectual hottie undertoned. Living as the meat in a grizzly bolden-obama-burger space sandwich. An agency political master, highly selective and knows who to be around and when not be around. Garver didn’t get to DA being vacuous. Incapable of changing the system but able to masterfully play the current one like a fiddle at her whim.
I’ve seen a lot worse DA’s. Garver is one of the best.
But then I don’t need to indulge in either the politics of hate to kiss ass to some retarded ideology, or feel insecure as a male so as to run down women in authority either.
I find that most of Garver’s critics can’t even quote a verifiable single issue that they have a reasonable objection to – its all a load of trumphed up nonsense to feed the noise machine.
She’s good. Does her job well. Thats good enough for me.
Take up the rest with her boss.
Here’s an issue:
“NASA’s vision: To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.”
The mission and vision rise to a the point of being a religious experience for the individual and the masses. It’s brilliant.
Those who belittle her should read through the details of her actual experience over the years. Unless they are unrelenting misogynists, they’ll came away with a much better opinion of her. Unlike many who have traveled in the same circles (men and women) she doesn’t take herself too seriously, but does take her work seriously.
Garver’s interview is not particularly inspiring, but unlike any of the past three NASA administrators, Garver makes no wild and unsubstantiated claims, understands the technical and political issues and has a coherent and feasible long-range vision.