NASA's draft science plan looks as if it "was written by a committee without the benefit of a cohesive editing effort," raising serious concerns about the long-term health of the U.S. space-science effort. A panel of scientists from fields NASA spends $5 billion a year to address finds that the draft strategic plan fails to tackle the agency's uncertain funding outlook in a meaningful way. This means important exploration capabilities could fall by the wayside and "a generation of scientists" may be lost in some disciplines, they say.
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