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May 08, 2008

NASA Review Board Questioned

I think this issue (AP - Inspector General: Conflict of interest on NASA review board) should be of concern:

A board set up to review construction of the spaceship to return astronauts to the moon is loaded with employees of the very contractors they are supposed to scrutinize, breaking federal law, a government watchdog says. [...] The board consists of 19 members charged with providing "independent" assessments of the project designed by NASA but built by private firms. However, nearly one-third of them work for those firms. Four of the six contractor employees were also stockholders in companies making money off the NASA project.

This arrangement has the appearance of impropriety and should be corrected to insure public confidence in NASA procedures.

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