NASA Unfazed by Report Saying Current Path Won't Reach Mars

摘要

A blue-ribbon panel's finding that NASA is not on a path to put humans on Mars drew nods from space policy experts and a pair of influential lawmakers, but not so much as a flinch from the space agency, which somehow saw affirmation in the highly critical 300-page report. "To continue on the present course ... is to invite failure, disillusionment, and the loss of the longstanding international perception that human space-flight is something the United States does best," the National Research Council's congressio-nally chartered Committee on Human Spaceflight wrote in its report, "Pathways to Exploration - Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration."