Research Catalog

Title

Leadership in space : selected speeches of NASA administrator Michael Griffin, May 2005-October 2008 / Michael D. Griffin.

Author

Griffin, Michael D. (Michael Douglas), 1949-

Publication

Washington D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Description

xii, 329 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

NASA SP ; 2008-564

Uniform Title

NASA SP (Series) ; 564.

Subject

• Griffin, Michael D. 1949-
• United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Management
• United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Astronautics > United States
• Astronautics and state > United States
• Competition, International
• Astronautics
• Astronautics and state
• Management
• SPACE EXPLORATION
• Outer space > Exploration > Government policy > United States
• Outer space
• United States
• Outer space > Exploration > Government policy > United States. > Other format available: Online version:; Griffin, Michael D. (Michael Douglas), 1949-; Leadership in space.; Washington D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters, 2008

Genre/Form

Government publications – United States.

Note

• "NASA SP-2008-564."

Contents

Pt.1. Exploration and our future. Leadership in space (California Space Authority, 12/2/05) -- Space exploration : real and acceptable reasons (Quasar Award Dinner, 1/19/07) -- Why explore space? (Op-Ed on McClatchy/Tribune Wire Service, 1/18/07) -- Space exploration : filling up the canvas (Langley Colloquium series, 10/24/06) -- Continuing the voyage : the spirit of Endeavour (Royal Society of the UK, 12/1/06) -- Incorporating space into our economic sphere of influence (World economic fourm 1/26/07) -- The role of space exploration in the global economy (NASA's 50th Anniversary Lecture series, 9/17/07) -- Partnership in space activities (International Astronautical Congress, 10/3/06) -- National strategy and the civil space program (National Space Symposium, 4/12/07) -- What the Hubble space telescope teaches us about ourselves (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, 7/24/08) -- Photos -- pt. 2. NASA, science, commerce and engineering. The rocket team (Annual Von Braun Dinner, 10/22/07) -- NASA's direction (Mars Society, 8/3/06) -- Science and NASA (GSFC, 9/12/06) -- Science priorities and program management (NAC Science Subcommittee, 7/6/06) -- NASA and the commercial space industry (X-Prize Cup Summit, 10/19/06) -- NASA and the business of space (AAS, 11/15/05) -- American competitiveness : NASA's role & everyone's responsibility (Calvin College, 1/17/08) -- Space exploration : a frontier for American collaboration (Georgetown University, 11/16/07) -- The next generation of engineers (PSE, 1/19/06) -- System engineering an the "two cultures" of engineering (Purdue University, 3/28/07) -- Generalship of engineering (The Johns Hopkins University Commencement, 5/24/06) -- NASA and engineering integrity (American Astronautical Society, 10/21/08) -- Photos -- pt. 3. getting there from here. The constellation architecture (STA, 1/22/08) -- Then and now : fifty years in space (AIAA, 9/19/07) -- The reality of tomorrow (National Space Symposium, 3/5/08) -- Human space exploration : the next 50 years (AW&ST, 3/14/07).

ISBN

• 9780160815652
• 0160815657

LCCN

2008039636

OCLC

• ocn247963892
• 247963892
• SCSB-1501106

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library