Letter to Editor:
Your article about NASA Administrator Mike Griffin’s views on the importance within the NASA community of open, respectful communications [“Hypersonics Research Could Get Resurrected at NASA,” May 9, page 7] is more-than-welcome news to me.
The hubris demonstrated by the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate in trashing the major space research organization (Office of Biological & Physical Research) they inherited is shameful.
Their approach appears to be the opposite of what Griffin favors. I hope that Griffin is able to change this situation so that differing views can be heard within NASA, Congress and the space research community.
Thanks for giving me some hope.
Name Withheld by Request
