Ex-NASA administrator: Congress will shape U.S. space strategy, not Obama, Huntsville Times
“Griffin also criticized the 14 Nobel laureates who wrote a letter to Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., in support of Obama’s plan. Gordon is the chair of the House Science and Technology Committee. “It is unsurprising to find that a group of eminent university-affiliated scientists,” Griffin said, “along with several former directors of NASA research and robotic spacecraft centers, would favor reallocating the NASA budget toward increased university research, technology development and robotic space missions instead of human spaceflight.”
