Apollo 18: A Review And Interview With Technical Advisor Gerry Griffin “I just had a chance to see the new film “Apollo 18″. As I am certain is the case with all of my fellow space cadets, I felt some intellectual trepidation in advance of seeing this film. How anyone could launch a Saturn V without the folks in Cocoa Beach noticing on Christmas day 1974 being one of the […]

U.S. mustn’t give up on space, Opinion, Gerry Griffin, USA Today “Going forward, commercial space companies and NASA must be considered partners, not competitors, in the U.S. human spaceflight enterprise. NASA’s plan to support commercial spaceflight would significantly strengthen the agency’s chances to have humans explore beyond Earth orbit once again. Human spaceflight to and from Earth orbit provided by commercial companies would enable NASA to focus more of its […]

Keith’s note: The following commentary by Gerry Griffin is one of the most memorable things that has ever graced the pages of NASA Watch. It appeared when the Internet was young and I was blogging before what I was doing was called “blogging” on a website called NASARIFWatch (RIF = “Reduction In Force”. Get familar with this activity, if you will.) Yes, it may be a bit dated. But it […]