Roderic Olvera Young
Headquarters, Washington, DC                February 24, 1998
(Phone:  202/358-4726)

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N98-20

NASA ADMINISTRATOR DANIEL S. GOLDIN 
TO PARTICIPATE IN EMERGING ISSUES FORUM

     NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin will discuss NASA's 
role in developing predictive environmental, climate, natural 
disaster and natural resource models and how these findings 
may help ensure sustainable development and improve the 
quality of life on Earth.  

     Goldin will address the Emerging Issues Forum at 4 p.m., 
Thursday, Feb. 26, 1998, at North Carolina State University's 
McKimmon Center.  Goldin will be available to the media from 
2:45 p.m. EST to 3:15 p.m. EST in Room 4 of the McKimmon 
Center.

     The Forum, a public service program bringing public 
policy debate to the people of North Carolina, features two 
days of discussions on the environment and sustainable 
development.

     Goldin became the ninth NASA Administrator in April 
1992.  Highlights of his tenure include: (1) the inauguration 
of the Discovery Program, a new class of planetary probes 
designed and developed in less than three years with mission 
costs of less than $150 million; (2) the initiation of 
significant new cooperative endeavors with the Russian Space 
Agency; (3) the redesign of the Space Station program in 
order to significantly cut costs without sacrificing 
meaningful science or technology development capability; and 
(4) the balancing of the Agency's programs to ensure Earth 
Science, Space Science and Aeronautics achieve their 
respective goals and missions, while achieving new 
efficiencies in the Human Space Flight program.

     Before receiving his Presidential appointment to NASA, 
Goldin was Vice President and General Manager of the TRW 
Space & Technology Group in Redondo Beach, CA.  He is a 
Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and 
Astronautics and a Fellow in the Institute for the 
Advancement of Engineering.  In 1993, he received the John F. 
Kennedy Astronautics Award from the American Astronautical 
Society and the Space Pioneer Award from the National Space 
Society.

     More information about NASA can be found via the 
Internet via URL:  http://www.nasa.gov
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