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Archives of Peking University News - PKU English - 北京大学

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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Daniel Goldin, NASA Former<br />

Administrator lectured at <strong>PKU</strong><br />

By Wang Fanfan<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2004—09—15<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=95385608<br />

By Wang Fanfan<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, Sep 15th, 2004: Daniel Goldin, former administrator <strong>of</strong><br />

NASA(National Aeronautics and Space Administration), delivered a splendid lecture<br />

named‖ Search for our Origins in the Universe‖ to the students <strong>of</strong> <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

this morning at Yingjie Exchange Center.<br />

Daniel Goldin presided over the agency from 1992-2001 and is credited with<br />

transforming NASA into a fiscally responsible and scientifically innovative agency.<br />

Through aggressive leadership, Dr. Goldin was able to improve scientific and<br />

technological productivity while at the same time reduce the agency's planned<br />

expenditures by billion dollars during his tenure. The launch rate <strong>of</strong> scientific<br />

spacecraft more than doubled, developmental cycle time was reduced by forty<br />

percent, average spacecraft costs were reduced by a factor <strong>of</strong> three and scientific<br />

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