Word: goldin
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...GOLDIN NASA boss sees Mars probes screw up. Time to put Pikachu in space...
...most of the 1990s, NASA's Dan Goldin has come across as the very model of a modern government administrator. Facing criticism that the space agency was wasting money, Goldin declared at the start of his tenure that he would turn the problem into an opportunity, finding ways to do more with less--and to all appearances, the strategy was working. The Mars Pathfinder Lander, built for a tenth the cost of its predecessors, riveted the nation's attention in 1997 with its live feed from the Red Planet's surface. And three years after its arrival Mars Global Surveyor...
...advantages to the faster-cheaper-better approach, in fact, is that when probes inevitably do fail, the loss is relatively small. Mars Observer, which vanished without a trace just before Goldin took office, cost the nation more than $1 billion; Climate Orbiter and the Polar Lander have set taxpayers back only $319 million between them. "We launched 10 spacecraft in 10 months," said Goldin. "We used to launch two a year. We have to be prepared for failure if we're going to explore...
Even NASA's critics agree that doing things faster, better and cheaper makes sense--if it's done right. Says Pike: "This should provide an opportunity for a midcourse correction." Some sort of correction may already be under way. Goldin has launched a new investigation to look into the Polar Lander loss, and NASA chief of space science Edward Weiler said last week the agency would rethink its ambitious schedule of sending multiple missions to Mars every 26 months through 2007. After years of tipping the other way, "better" may finally be getting the same attention as "faster" and "cheaper...
...David W. Foster Geoffrey A. Fowler Julia A. Fowler Jason L. Freidenfelds Brian R. Friedman Virginia S. Fuller David J. Fusco Raefer C. Gabriel Julio V. Gambuto Lauren R. Garsten John W. Geary Kata Gellen Michael T. Giampaolo Peter A. Gilchrist Ghia E. Godfree Jonathan I. Goldberg Jonathan E. Goldin Jesse F. Goldman Jacob P. Goldstein Samantha A. Goldstein Yael T. Goldstein Paul Goldschmidt Talia R. Gonzalez Siddhartha N. Gowda McComma Grayson Brendan K. Greaves Joseph Green Stephanie B. Greenman Emily F. Gregory Michael K. Grobis Elizabeth S. Grossman Nicholas R.H. Grossman Melissa K. Gruber Jonathan Gruenhut Michael Grunwald Jeffrey...