Mike Griffin Station Quotations

The space station partners have the right to propose and to conduct commercial activities on the station, provided that all appropriate safety considerations have been dealt with. We are not at the end of that particular road as yet, but we will pursue it.

Every time I speak to one of our international partners, they are gung-ho in every possible way about wanting to take this partnership forged on the space station to the moon and Mars. They want to do that,

The partnership has proven stronger than the stresses and strains which have been imposed on it, which have been great, ... It has held together. If the United States is able to keep the commitments we've made to the station partners, I think we can take that partnership to the moon.

The main thing you are seeing here today is the decision to put together an assembly sequence that allows us to have very high confidence we will finish the space station by the time the shuttle must be retired. It's the same station. The end product is very much as we envisioned it.