Griffin Confirmed as NASA Administrator
Michael D. Griffin, a physicist who has worked in private and public space programs, was confirmed Wednesday by the Senate as the 11th NASA administrator.
Griffin, 55, will leave his job as head of the space department at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory.
He replaces Sean O’Keefe, who resigned in February after three years to become chancellor at Louisiana State University.
Griffin joined Johns Hopkins in 2004 after serving as president and chief executive of a CIA-funded enterprise that worked on national security projects.
His career has included work with Orbital Sciences Corp. and with NASA as chief engineer and associate administrator for exploration.
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