Yep, Griffin even shared the plenary talks with Musk when he gave the famous Mars Society announcement about going to Mars, https://marspedia.org/images/9/99/2

Yep, Griffin even shared the plenary talks with Musk when he gave the famous Mars Society announcement about going to Mars, https://marspedia.org/images/9/99/2001_TMS_Conv_Sched.pdf https://marspedia.org/images/9/99/2001_TMS_Conv_Sched.pdf They were very close. Elon named his first born son Griffin. Mike Griffin is all about putting (eventually) hypersonic weapons in space and resurrecting Brilliant Pebbles. He was the early advocate for reusable launchers https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/may99/rockets11.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/may99/r... and the Falcon name came from his DARPA Falcon Project.