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...fact, said ASA administrator Daniel Goldin, presenting the first images from the born-again telescope at a press conference last week, "it's better than new. The telescope now gathers light four times as efficiently as it did before the repairs." Its eyesight is so sharp, say scientists, that if it were sitting in Washington, it could spot a firefly in Tokyo...
...space-station plan, it turned out, would contain the once radical notion of asking the Russians to join the project, which also includes Japan, Canada, Italy and the European Space Agency. The formal invitation went to Moscow last week. And the revamping of NASA fell to agency administrator Daniel Goldin, the ex-chief of the space division at TRW and one of only two Bush appointees to survive the change of Administrations. Goldin's brusque style has made him few friends either inside or outside the agency, but being liked is not the point. Admits Goldin...
...time when there are so many demands for limited government resources, Goldin realizes that NASA can justify itself only if it becomes more cost- effective and relevant to the economic needs of society. Under orders from Congress to make substantial cuts in the agency's budget, administrator Goldin has trimmed NASA's annual expenditures from about $19 billion to $16 billion. Goldin has already assaulted NASA's burgeoning bureaucracy, slashing the number of U.S. managers on the space-station project from 1,300 to 330 and laying plans to reduce shuttle operating costs by 25% over the next three years...
...relevance, Goldin is adamant: "The agency doesn't exist for the benefit of its employees," he says. "It exists for the benefit of the American people." NASA has a new Advanced Concepts and Technology Program, designed to help private companies capitalize on the space agency's expertise. One beneficiary could be the auto industry, which could use such products of NASA technology as lightweight materials and compact power systems...
...criticism of NASA, there are still plenty of people who believe that humanity has a basic need to explore the final frontier. Said Goldin on the eve of Endeavour's launch: "This is what we need to be doing. NASA exists to do bold, noble and innovative things. You can't make progress unless you take risks." The television audiences that watched the astronauts perform last week were much smaller than those that watched Neil Armstrong's first step onto the moon in 1969. But even the most jaded viewer had to be inspired by the sight...