Michael D. Griffin: “Let us again, as we did after the loss of Columbia, decide as a nation what we want to see accomplished in space.”

We have to change from being a technology inventor to a technology user.

If we treated the Air Force as we do the space program, we wouldn't have any flying aircraft.

I believe this budget request advocates a strategy that is frankly disastrous for the U.S. human space flight program.

the recognition of the erosion of U.S. technological superiority, which was once unquestioned in the world, is what led the Congress to establish the position that I now hold, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.