Ed you have zero credibility here. Goldin's failures have been well documented here and eslewhere, yet you insist that "It's not his fault." You try to raise red herrings about Tumlinson when the topic is Goldin's failures. Bullfeathers. As a VP of Engineering, my CEO & board holds me personally responsible for everything that happens in my organization. No excuses that 'I didn't know". Real world execs are held accountable for their division's performance.

As to the "He didn't know or approve excuse" he had this to say...

Nasa insist that the song is not just a gimmick. “We have to offer our young people, and the young at heart alike, hope that there are exciting things out there, new frontiers,” Daniel Goldin, head of Nasa, said. “If we have to do it by being hip, so be it.”

Hip. Yeah, right.
I see all those kids lining up right now to go to the moon.