Keith or anyone else:

With the inauguration of a new president, Dan Goldin was supposed to become an unpleasant memory. However six months have passed and he's still hanging in there. I see this as meaning one of two things:

1) The Space Program is so utterly unimportant to George W. that he can't be bothered to get rid of Goldin or produce any new policy towards Space Exploration. [This scenario is catastrophic]

2) George W. has a "tiger team" working quietly in a back room trying to come up with a Space Exploration master vision but has found the problem "too hard".

Any clues?

Gary