NASA Chief Administrator Daniel Goldin to Announce Resignation Today, Sources Say

Posted by tourdemars to Budget at October 17, 2001 12:00 PM

NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin said today he will depart November 17 satisfied and proud that the U.S. space agency launched so many spacecraft during his tenure. "NASA is alive!" Goldin, the agency’s longest-serving administrator, said in a telephone interview. He noted that NASA had 60 spacecraft launched and planned during his tenure and said his proudest moment was the in-orbit repair of the Hubble Space Telescope. "We opened up the universe," he said. Goldin said his biggest disappointment is not going to Mars. "My life will be complete when an astronaut sets foot on Mars," Goldin said. "I want to be associated with it in some way."