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NASA Denies Mike Griffin's Claims About GRC Cuts

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
June 28, 2012
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NASA rebuts Cuyahoga County GOP claim of pending cuts at Cleveland’s Glenn Research Center
“The Republican group’s news release also cited former NASA administrator Mike Griffin as a source on the layoffs. “The fact that the Obama administration is seriously considering moving human space flight work out of Glenn is deeply troubling,” Griffin is quoted as saying. “To eliminate Glenn’s role in human space flight is to call into question its very participation in NASA’s future.” Griffin declined to expand on that statement when reached by email.”
NASA says there are no plans for human spaceflight cutbacks at Cleveland’s Glenn Research Center, Cleveland Plain Dealer
“The one-page chart given to reporters came from Michael Griffin, who ran NASA during George W. Bush’s presidency, and shows that the agency could save $216 million between 2013 and 2016 by eliminating 244 human space flight jobs at Glenn and 825 similar positions at seven other NASA centers. … Griffin and former NASA associate administrator Scott Pace, who also is a Romney space policy advisor, repeated those criticisms Thursday at a news conference organized by the Cuyahoga County Republican Party, saying the potential cutbacks at Glenn showed the lack of a clear, coherent human space flight mission.”

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9 responses to “NASA Denies Mike Griffin's Claims About GRC Cuts”

  1. Nox Anonymous says:
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    What I don’t understand, how would a county GOP know about what is going to happen with a Federal Administration Research Center??

    • RocketScientist327 says:
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      When you start practicing local government, you would be surprised what your county chairman and those precinct committeemen find out.  

      Respectfully,
      Andrew Gasser
      TEA Party in Space

  2. Michael Spencer says:
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    Surprising just how useful your little graphic of “Janus Mikey” has been over the years, Keith.

    • kcowing says:
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      I agree. Griffin always wants it both ways. First he is a Romney advisor then he’s not – but he’s speaking about Obama space policy with another Romney space advisor Scott Pace who is or is not speaking in an official capacity depending on what time of day it is.  Maybe I need a “Janus Pace” pic too.

  3. nasa817 says:
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    Oh, I see.  We must cut the size of the federal government and get rid of all that wasteful spending of tax dollars, but not in my district.

    I admit NASA could easily shed these 1,000 jobs, though.  Unfortunately, they would all be engineers and not the bloated support staff that is draining the Agency.  NASA should be up-sizing its research Centers such as GRC and downsizing its bloated HSF Centers like KSC, JSC and MSFC.

    • Jeff Havens says:
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      Or, perhaps disband NASA.  Reorganize, separate into three or four agencies (Human Spaceflight, Robotics and Satellites, Sciences, and Aeronautics) with separate budgets.  Become administrators and not owners.  Set the rules, award grants, and have the companies you grant to show results within budget (and have a philosophy of reasonable profit rather than get all you can get away with).  Level out the playing field between the big boys and the new boys. Simple ideas that can go on and on.

      I know, pipe dream.  Perhaps even short-sighted.  But really, are these simple ideas worse than what we have now?

      Oh, and a leader who can can find a way to get Congress to do this.

      Again, pipe dream.  Hard habits are very hard to break, and those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.  It’s like TV.. all I ever see anymore are repeats.

      –Jeff, regular ‘ol citizen

      • Anonymous says:
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        Sometime ago, Eli was of the opinion that the Bushies were going to hack up NASA.  In one scenario
        aeronautics would go to the FAA leaving a rump Confederate Manned
        Space Exploration Agency centered around Johnson, Kennedy, Marshall and
        Stennis. Kennedy would be renamed Strom Thurmond Space Center.  GISS would be gifted (in the German sense) to Columbia, JPL, well Cal Tech owns it anyhow and Goddard would have to fend for itself.

        • DTARS says:
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          Would that work or is that like blowing up the blob and then all the parts grow bigger.

          Or

          Is that like saving federal tax dollars by passing the tax to the states to make more room to tax more.

    • Stone says:
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      Right on!