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Slideshow: End of a Goldin Era at NASA

NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin departs in November, taking with him a notable list of accomplishments, both scientific and financial. Here's a photographic look at some of the triumph's of Goldin's tenure.
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The Deep Space 1 probe recently captured these photos of the comet Borrelly. It is the closest we've ever come to a comet.NASA

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images from deep space.

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The Cassini lifted off in 1997 and is en route to an expected Saturn orbit in 2004. Once in orbit around the ringed planet, it will likely be capable of transmiting data back to Earth for longer than NASA can fund the project.

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The Mars Pathfinder lander is seen through the lens of the Sojouner rover. The landing on Mars in 1997 was the first in 20 years.

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NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin poses with the Sojouner rover from the Mars Pathfinder mission.

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The X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed a bright central star surrounded by a cloud of multimillion-degree gas in the planetary nebula known as the Cat's Eye. This composite image of Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope data offers astronomers an opportunity to compare where the hotter, X-ray emitting gas appears in relation to the cooler material seen in optical wavelengths.

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