NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price Contains selected speeches of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin. Provides a thoughtful rationale for what we are doing in space, why we are doing it and how we intend to bring it about. Related products: NASA at 50: Interviews With NASA's Senior Leadership is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-000-01360-4 Bringing the Future Within Reach: Celebrating 75 Years of the NASA John H. Glenn ...
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NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price Contains selected speeches of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin. Provides a thoughtful rationale for what we are doing in space, why we are doing it and how we intend to bring it about. Related products: NASA at 50: Interviews With NASA's Senior Leadership is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-000-01360-4 Bringing the Future Within Reach: Celebrating 75 Years of the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center, 1941-2016 is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-000-01377-9 Wings in Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle 1971-2010 -Print Hardcover format can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-000-01347-7 Dressing for Altitude: U.S. Aviation Pressure Suits, Wiley Post to Space Shuttle --ePub format is available for purchase through the Apple iBookstore-- Please use ISBN: 9780160915604 to search for this title in their platform. Revolutionary Atmosphere: The Story of the Altitude Wind Tunnel and the Space Power Chambers is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-000-01342-6 NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics, Vols. 1-2 is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-000-01334-5
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Publisher:
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Admi
Published:
2008
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
14633855527
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Very good in Very good jacket. xii, 329, [1] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Inscribed by author on fep. Michael Douglas Griffin (born November 1, 1949) is an American physicist and aerospace engineer who is the current Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. He previously served as Administrator of NASA, the U.S. space agency, from April 13, 2005, to January 20, 2009. As NASA Administrator Griffin oversaw such areas as the future of human spaceflight, the fate of the Hubble telescope and NASA's role in understanding climate change. In April 2009 Griffin was named eminent scholar and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Alabama. Griffin had worked at NASA prior to serving as NASA Administrator, including as Associate Administrator for Exploration. When he was nominated as NASA chief, he was head of the Space Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). In 2007 he was included in the TIME 100, the magazine's list of the 100 most influential people. Griffin's appointment as Administrator was associated with a significant shift in the direction of the agency. Administrator Griffin wrote in the Preface that "The most important theme for me has been that of identifying and elucidating an intellectual rationale for human space exploration." He argued that the rationale needed to be more than the contribution to science. He felt that human space exploration was about expanding the range of human action, experience and influence. It is about developing options for succeeding generations to exploit the resources of the solar system for the benefit of mankind. Griffin sought to offer through his public addresses a more complete rationale for human presence in space. Within this volume are speeches with reflect this important theme.
