Daniel Goldin

The success of robotic missions such as the Voyager spacecraft to the outer planets fostered debate over the relative value of robotic versus human space exploration.

In 1999, NASA Administrator Dan Goldin chartered a small internal task force, the Decadal Planning Team, which later evolved into a larger agency-wide team known as the NASA Exploration Team, to investigate the best ways to coordinate human and robotic missions.

These teams followed a series of architecture studies over the previous decade, such as the report of General Thomas Stafford and the Synthesis Group, all aimed at charting a renewed course of space exploration.

The work of the two NASA teams helped provide the basis for a new policy established by President George W. Bush in 2004, the Vision for Space Exploration.

The success of robotic missions such as the Voyager spacecraft to the outer planets fostered debate over the relative value of robotic versus human space exploration.

In 1999, NASA administrator Dan Goldin chartered a small internal task force The Decadal Planning Team, which later evolved into a larger agency-wide team known as the NASA Exploration Team, to investigate the best ways to coordinate human and robotic missions.

These teams followed a series of architecture studies over the previous decade, such as the report of General Thomas Stafford and the Synthesis Group, all aimed at charting a renewed course of space exploration.

The work of the two NASA teams helped provide the basis for a new policy established by President George W. Bush in 2004, the Vision for Space Exploration.

This is the Gene Cernan era?

This was the, uh, Goldin, um-

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Dan Goldin era.

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