Word: goldin
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...time in space? In a desperate effort to keep its cash-starved half of the International Space Station (ISS) afloat, the Russian Space Agency has offered to sell its counterparts at NASA the only thing it has left: allocation of astronauts. For a mere $60 million, NASA chief Daniel Goldin told members of Congress in a letter printed in the New York Times Monday, America will get "up to 100 percent of the research time previously allocated to Russia" -- and Moscow's space program effectively becomes a subsidiary of Washington...
...former Soviet Union; less widely known is how important it is to former Cold War warriors back in the U.S. "This is a way to keep idle hands busy in the domestic aerospace industry, too," says Kluger. All of which hardly sits well with NASA administrator Daniel Goldin's vision for "faster, cheaper, better" space missions. And researchers who could have used the money to do something useful -- cure cancer, say, or map the human genes -- can only watch and weep...
...wasn't a decision made lightly. In the months that followed, Goldin wrestled with the matter, agonizing over what he considered his John Glenn problem. At one point, he sought counsel from Tom Miller, Glenn's oldest friend and Marine Corps comrade. "'Can you imagine if something happened [during the mission]?'" Miller recalls Goldin asking. "'My heart says yes, but my brain says...
...they had finished their preliminary reviews and concluded that both Glenn's science and his health were sound enough to justify the mission. Shortly afterward, on Jan. 15, Glenn was in his Senate office meeting with a group of constituents from Ohio State University when he got word that Goldin was on the line...
Stepping into the bullpen of cubicles just outside his door, Glenn picked up the phone and, after some good-natured stalling and suspense building by Goldin, learned that he would indeed be returning to space and that the announcement would be made the next day. Until then, Glenn was to say nothing. The Senator thanked the administrator, hung up the phone and went back to work without a word to his staff. "He's a military man," says press secretary Jack Sparks. "He knows how to take an order...