RESIGNATION NASA administrator Dan Goldin is resigning after almost 10 years at the US space agency, serving three US presidents. Goldin will leave on 17 November. The longest-serving NASA administrator, Goldin brought Russia into the International Space Station (ISS) programme, reduced Space Shuttle costs by one-third and increased the programme's safety. His "faster, better, cheaper" approach to space exploration was largely successful, reducing annual budgets by $40 billion. Goldin failed, however, to keep control of the ISS budget and encountered back-to-back Mars spacecraft failures in 1999. A replacement for Goldin has not yet been named.
Source: Flight International
