The man NASA trusted to pick the company that will build the United States' first manned space-craft since the space shuttle is no stranger to space exploration. Doug Cooke, a Texas A&M aerospace engineer who joined the U.S. space agency in 1973 just as the Apollo Moon program was winding down, has spent half his 33-year career thinking about ways to get astronauts back to Earth's nearest neighbor and beyond. Back when NASA Administrator Mike Griffin was known as the associate administrator for exploration in charge of implementing the first President Bush's 1989 call for returning to the Moon, Cooke was Griffin's man in Houston. After the Space Exploration Initiative was put out of business a few short years later, Cooke returned to the international space station program and quickly rose to deputy program manager. By 1996, Cooke was back to dreaming up more exciting missions for astronauts, serving as manager of Johnson Space Center's Advanced Development Office.
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机译：由于航天飞机对太空探索并不陌生，因此美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的人选择了将建造美国第一艘载人航天器的公司。德克萨斯州A＆M航空航天工程师道格·库克（Doug Cooke）于1973年加入美国太空总署，正值阿波罗登月计划（Apollo Moon）即将结束之时，他已经花费了33年的职业生涯的一半时间，思考如何使宇航员重返地球上最近的邻居。早在NASA局长迈克·格里芬（Mike Griffin）被任命为负责执行布什总统于1989年要求重返月球的勘探任务的副研究员时，库克就是格里芬在休斯顿的人。太空探索计划在短短几年后停业后，库克返回国际空间站计划，并迅速升任副计划经理。到1996年，库克（John Cooke）曾担任约翰逊太空中心（Johnson Space Center）高级发展办公室的经理，梦想着为宇航员带来更多激动人心的任务。
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