Daniel Goldin

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As Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Daniel Goldin led the troubled space agency through a remarkable recovery, from the initial failure of the Hubble Space telescope, through the successful manned mission to repair the telescope, to subsequent triumphant unmanned missions to Mars and beyond. Daniel Goldin was born in New York City and grew up in the South Bronx. He began his career as a research scientist at NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked on electric propulsion systems for interplanetary travel. In the late '60s, he left NASA to work at the technology conglomerate TRW. Over the next 25 years he rose to be Vice President and General Manager of TRW's Space & Technology Group in Redondo Beach, California. During his career at TRW, he successfully managed the development and production of advanced spacecraft, technologies and space science instruments. President George H.W. Bush chose Daniel Goldin to be the ninth