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Indian Space Research Organization becoming the right wing of NASA - NASA chief Michael Griffin said he was sorry for the ban, which America had imposed on certain space units of India.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) chief Michael Griffin on Tuesday said he "was sorry about" American sanctions on some Indian space units.
Asked at a press conference if he would use his "good offices" to see that sanctions, which continued to be imposed on some Indian space units were lifted, he said, "I am sorry about the past. But I would certainly take forth a good word about Indian space capabilities" and Indian technical capability.
Ironically, Griffin will travel to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram and the Sriharikota launch centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation, which continue to be on the US entity list, during his two-day visit to ISRO facilities.
The first NASA chief to visit India in three decades, Griffin visited the ISRO satellite centre on Tuesday morning and signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the inclusion of two US scientific instruments on India's first mission to the moon, chandrayaan-1.