History
The New Frontiers Program was developed, advocated, and successfully proposed by NASA and the Administration and granted by Congress in CY 2002 and 2003. This effort was led by two long-time NASA executives at Headquarters at that time: Dr. Edward Weiler, Associate Administrator of Science and Dr. Colleen Hartman, Solar System Exploration Division Director. The mission to Pluto had already been selected before this program was successfully endorsed and funded, so the mission to Pluto, called New Horizons, was "grandfathered" into the New Frontiers program. The 2003 Decadal Survey from the National Academy of Sciences identified destinations that then served as the source of the first competition for the New Frontiers Program. The program name was selected by Dr. Hartman based on President John F. Kennedy's speech in 1960, in which he said "We stand, today, on the edge of a New Frontier."
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