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...Washington press conference, hastily convened after word of the discovery leaked to the journal Space News, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin echoed the excitement. "It's an unbelievable day," he said. "It took my breath away." But, he cautioned, "the scientists are not here to say they've found ultimate proof...We must investigate, evaluate and validate this discovery, and it is certain to create lively scientific controversy...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Even if the reports of the discovery of alien bacteria from Mars turn out to be mistaken, the enthusiasm developing in the wake of yesterday's announcement has some serious implications for the future of planetary research. NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin asked for a "robust program of exploration" of Mars, and it seems he may get it. On Wednesday, President Clinton announced that the U.S. would follow up the discovery with international scientists at a space summit this November. Two unmanned probes blasting off for scientific missions to Mars this November and December will be followed by eight...
...WASHINGTON, D.C.: Even as NASA is studying a rock the size of small potato to see whether there is life on other planets, Congress must decide how much money to give the space agency. At NASA's press conference announcing the stunning finding, agency administrator Daniel Goldin introduced his panel of experts with an unsubtle push for new funding, thanking the President and Congress for their "unwavering" support and describing the agency's projects in glowing terms. As the conference drew to a close, Goldin proposed that the President and Congress appropriate more funds to resolve the scientific issues...
...Goldin's goal since he arrived in 1992 has been to make NASA a shuttle customer rather than a designer-owner-operator. To ease this transition, he pledged $1 billion in development funds to the winner of a design contest that pitted Lockheed Martin against Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas...
...scheduled to fly in 1999, the finished craft in 2006. NASA and Lockheed claim that the innovations will shrink the shuttle's price-per-payload-pound from $10,000 to $1,000, slash repair and inspection costs and reduce turnaround time from weeks to days. Goldin envisions fleets of VentureStars launching satellites, hauling material back and forth to space stations and ferrying tourists into orbit. "Many people have aspirations of going into space," he says. "They should be able to live those...