NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said goodbye Friday to the space agency’s employees and thanked them for their hard work during his four years on the job. He also admits that in his success there was a big support of them. He also informed that he has no plan about what he will do next.

The 59-year-old Griffin who was 11th administrator of NASA spoke to staffs around the country in a live telecast on Friday morning from NASA headquarters in Washington. In his 45-minute address, Griffin advises to employees to support the next NASA administrator, whoever it is, and support the new president’s space policy, whatever that turns out to be. Griffin has been active in guiding Bush’s plan to retire the space transports by 2010 and go back astronauts to the moon by 2020 with new rocket.

In 2005 he was appointed by President George W. Bush, two years after the Columbia tragedy and right as space transports were gearing up to goes back to trip. In recent months he said that he would be eager to stay on, but, in the last part, was not asked.

Now everybody is eager to see that who will be the new administration. The incoming Obama government has not yet named a replacement. But there is floating the name of J. Scott Gration, who was retired Air Force general, has almost no space experience but was a military consultant to the president-elect during the campaign.

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