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In his press conference after the March 7 release of the presidential space statement, NASA Administrator Paine tried to put a positive spin on the document, calling the program that the president had announced “bold, diversified, very wide ranging.” But Paine in a rare note of realism did recognize the challenge of reorienting NASA to new objectives, saying “what we are really faced here in this change as President Nixon’s space program replaces the old space program of the 60’s is we are essentially taking a $3.5 billion enterprise which has been going in one direction, a very singleminded purpose, and completely changing it around and moving in a new direction. That is a tough job.”1
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Logsdon, J.M. (2015). The End of the Apollo Era. In: After Apollo?. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438546_7
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