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Date Released: Thursday, October 20, 2005
Source: NASA HQ
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin's Remarks for 56th International
Astronautical Congress
17 October 2005
Fukuoka, Japan
Thank you, Mr. Takayanagi, for that generous introduction, and good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I am honored to present NASA's visions and plans for the next 20 years in the exploration and utilization of space alongside my distinguished colleagues from Canada, China, India, Japan, Russia and the European Space Agency, and to such a knowledgeable audience.
To preface my remarks, let me say as someone who's been privileged to work in the aerospace business for almost 35 years, that it is remarkable how far we've come in less than 50 years of activity in space.
Twelve human beings have explored the surface of the moon; it is now my job to make that number grow by leaps and bounds. The world's spacefaring nations have sent robotic pathfinders to all of the planets of our solar system, with the exception of Pluto, and if we are able to launch New Horizons in January 2006, we'll have one on the way to that planet, as well.
In just 10 years, over 150 planets beyond our solar system have been discovered, and there are indications that at least one has the same rocky characteristics of our home planet. And closer to home, our citizens have reaped enormous benefits from communications, navigation, weather, and other remote sensing satellites.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html?skipIntro=1
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/136535main_griffin_japan.pdf (PDF 55 Kb, 8 page)
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The Vision of going to the Moon, Mars and Beyond is reshuffling NASA's priorities. Some of the items that were going to go to the ISS may not go. When you don't have enough money for everything you want, some things don't get funded.
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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=16174
6 April 2005 Letter From Sen. Barbara Boxer to Frederick Gregory regarding NASA Ames Research Center FY06 Funding Issues
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In addition to facing budget cuts, I understand that NASA Headquarters is considering eliminating one of NASA Ames' premier programs, the Space Station Biological Research Program (SSBRP). The elimination of this project alone would result in the loss of nearly 100 jobs.
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All of these changes ripple throughout the community and to those that we have had intenational agreements with as well.
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http://www.nasawatch.com/
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The New Regime, Government Executive
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1005/101905mm.htm
Griffin: "Our plans and our budgets left us with 2,000 civil servants who weren't assigned to a job that NASA was doing. For many years, NASA did not address a growing mismatch between what our civil service skill mix was and what we needed it to be. As we change our emphasis, some skills aren't needed anymore."
Continue reading "Layoff Update" http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2005/10/layoff_update_2.html#more
Posted by kcowing at 11:42 AM Permalink
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This 2003 update from Japan will have to be looked at as well as schedules are adjusted
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http://spaceinfo.jaxa.jp/db/kaihatu/station/station_e/kokusai_e.html
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Kibo will make it possible to conduct experiments that require special environments such as microgravity and near vacuum, which are difficult to reproduce on Earth. These experiments will include:
I. New materials development utilizing microgravity, and life science experiments to study the relationship between organic life and gravity;
II. Manned space technology research to study physical and psychological adaptability and to pursue future safe and comfortable habitation in space;
and
III. Space engineering such as space transportation, robotics, telecommunications, energy, and structures.

Separate launches for the Pressurized Module, Experiment Logistics Module, and Exposed Facility will start around 2004. The ISS is expected to be completed in 2006.
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http://iss.sfo.jaxa.jp/index_e.html
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Well the ISS is up.
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http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Technology/Space/International_Space_Station/
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The Moon would be further up.
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-09-15-moon-2018-mission_x.htm
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chrono_future.html
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/NASA_plans_for_future_moon_missions
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How about Mars?
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http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/future/2005-plus.html
Beyond 2005
During recent months, NASA has been developing a long-term Mars exploration program that charts a course for the next two decades. The new program incorporates the lessons learned from previous mission successes and failures, and builds on scientific discoveries from past missions. International participation, especially from Italy and France, will add significantly to the plan.
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Okay, I didn't answer the question, but you will have to if it is to happen.
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In a message dated 10/19/2005 4:38:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
SpaceADG@yahoogroups.com writes:
Message: 3
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 03:44:48 -0000
From: "hdot_tech"
Subject: Re: Digest Number 808
Steve, Excellent points. As I once said, sending a robot into space can be compared to sending your video cam and thermometer to Hawaii via UPS and having a third party in Hawaii shoot some video and relay the temp readings to you. You end up with some pretty video and the
knowledge that Hawaii is a warm place, but it's just not the same as going there yourself. You can't "know" Diamond Head without beholding it up close.

Jim,
Also good points.
Which reminds me of yet another in the same vain... When I was 14 in '73 I took a trip through the western states with a youth group for a month. I remember how impressed I was standing there looking at the Rocky Mountains all around me and thinking, "You can see this a million times in books, on t.v. or in the movies, but actually BEING here seeing them with all my senses simply does not compare in any way". Humans must experience if we want to remain human.
I hear/read people bringing up the same old, mostly discredited, arguments against a robust space program and feel we must counter them with more than the same old (yet again, valid) arguments. As the saying goes, the definition of insanity is using the same methods to solve a problem and expecting different results. We as space activists (and allegedly smart folks) need to do more "out of the box" thinking. I sense that we are beginning to.

Steve Stein
Medina, Ohio
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-- NASA Administrator Michael Griffin's Remarks for 56th International
Astronautical Congress
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18071
"I recall that Louis Armstrong once said about jazz music, "if you have to ask what jazz is, you'll
never know". Similarly, when frustrated, I have at times been moved to say that if you have to ask why we should explore space, you'll never understand the answer. But this is
not good enough. If we in the space community expect to lay a legitimate claim to even a very
small portion of public financial support in our various nations, we must justify those claims in a
way that others, not of our community, can understand."
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Thanks for looking up with me.
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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