W Jump Starts NASA

W selects another winner:

For the past year, Griffin has headed the space department at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. It is the lab's second-largest department and specializes in projects for both NASA and the military.

Griffin, 55, has a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and five master's degrees, in aerospaceGriffin, 55, has a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and five master's degrees, in aerospace science, electrical engineering, applied physics, civil engineering and business administration. His bachelor's degree is in physics.

Hmmm, I wonder if he's qualified?

Last year, Griffin joined other experts to assess the president's new exploration initiative for NASA, which involves retiring the shuttle by 2010, sending astronauts to the moon by 2020, and then mounting human expeditions to Mars and beyond. The report pushed for an even quicker retirement of the shuttle in order to accelerate work on a spaceship that could carry astronauts to the international space station and ultimately to the moon.

New ideas are just what NASA needs at this time.

Another W Home Run.