>>13419312You can thank this guy. Originally the reports by astronomers suggested a 4 meter telescope, but Goldin intervened saying this was too "modest" and it should be 8 meters. Lots of external panels foresaw that it would cost a lot more, but Goldin's admin were adamant that it could be done much cheaper. Under Goldin NASA adopted a "Faster, Better, Cheaper" approach. The rest is history. The missions from this era had a shocking 37% failure rate.
As an interesting aside Goldin previously worked for a company called TRW, who would go on to be the prime contractor for NGST.
The autist who posts in these threads loves to rant about astronomers, but Goldin is actually an engineer.
