Former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin said the United States is in danger of giving up its leadership in space and that staff-level White House budget officials - not the president or Congress - are largely to blame. rnSpeaking at the National Space Club's annual Goddard Dinner here April 17, Griffin warned that the forthcoming White House budget proposal contains bad news for NASA's human exploration program. rnGriffin praised U.S. President Barack Obama for putting forth a 2010 budget outline that reiterates support for retiring the space shuttle next year and replacing it with a new system capable of supporting the international space station beyond 2015 and enabling a human lunar return by 2020. rn"All of that is good news," Griffin said, according to a prepared text of his speech. "But work at the staff level continues out of view of the nation's elected leadership, and in a recent passback to NASA from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the news is not so good."
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机译：美国国家航空航天局前局长迈克·格里芬（Mike Griffin）说，美国有可能放弃其在太空领域的领导地位，而在职人员级别的白宫预算官员，而不是总统或国会，则应承担主要责任。格里芬（Griffin）在4月17日在国家太空俱乐部（National Space Club）举行的年度戈达德晚宴上发表讲话时警告，即将到来的白宫预算提案对NASA的人类探索计划而言是个坏消息。格里芬赞扬美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）提出了2010年预算大纲，该大纲重申了对明年退役航天飞机的支持，并用能够支持2015年以后国际空间站并在2020年实现人类登月的新系统取代它。所有这些都是好消息，”格里芬说。 “但是，由于美国当选的领导层，工作人员的工作仍在继续，而且最近从管理和预算办公室（OMB）调回NASA的消息也不是那么好。”
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