February 1994
From The Space Library
A feature article on NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin and NASA described the Agency's ups and downs over the years. It cited Goldin's mantra "smaller, faster, cheaper" but said NASA's real problems were budgeting, contracting, procurement, and financial accounting systems. The article commended NASA's recent cost estimates as more realistic and referred to Goldin's push to include Russia in the Space Station project as a means of reducing costs. Stressing the agency's financial management problems, the article pointed out that NASA still lacked a chief financial officer, which Congress required. The article lauded the success of the Hubble rescue mission as a NASA triumph and referred to other Goldin plans such as focusing on Mission to Planet Earth to monitor the Earth's environment and improving aeronautical research. (Government Executive, Feb/94)
NASA's appointment of France Cordova as the Agency's Senior Scientific Adviser, on a three-year leave of absence from Pennsylvania State University was featured. She was to serve as the principal link between NASA and the science community and ensure that NASA programs were regarded as scientifically and technologically well-founded. She was also to coordinate an integrated strategic plan for all the scientific disciplines within NASA. (The Penn Stater, Feb/94)
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