Over the years, NASA has solved lots of engineering puzzles, and
developed policies for everything from workweek length to
permissable radiation exposure for astronauts. But now, as the US
plans for a mission to Mars, the agency is being forced to begin
addressing deeper ethical issues for the first time.
NASA reports its Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has
provided new data on the Jupiter system, stunning scientists with
never-before-seen perspectives of the giant planet's atmosphere,
rings, moons and magnetosphere.
There seems to be some miscommunication between NASA and Russian
space agency Roskosmos. The head of the Russian program said
recently the United States rejected that agency's proposal for the
two countries to work together in returning to the moon.
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