Michael Griffin Future Quotations

But the space program is a long-term investment in our future. We must deal with our short-term problems while not sacrificing our long-term investments in our future. When we have a hurricane, we don't cancel the Air Force. We don't cancel the Navy. And we're not going to cancel NASA.

Future generations of Americans will be dealing with the fact other nations, other cultures, other societies will be out there with us, and that's a good thing.

The space program is a long-term investment in our future. We must deal with our short-term problems without sacrificing our long-term investments in our future.

The space program is a long-term investment in our future,

This is a sad day for NASA. ... But also one of renewed hope for the future of NASA's manned space flight program. The end of the Shuttle Program means that we will begin a new program that will be bigger better and more expensive than anything we have undertaken before. I'm proud of the people that have kept the shuttle going, but the Shuttle Program is done. Its time for the shuttle, like an old dog, to lie on the porch and let the younger dogs chase the rabbits.

The requirement to live off the land will be crucial to our future in space, just as it was to Lewis and Clark.