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Expert panel: NASA seems lost in space, needs goal

By Seth Borenstein
Published December 5, 2012 5:00am ET
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Expert panel: NASA seems lost in space, needs goal
FILE - This Tuesday, July 19, 2011 image provided by NASA shows the International Space Station photographed by a member of Atlantis' STS-135 crew during a fly around as the shuttle departed the station on the last space shuttle mission. A panel of outside experts said Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 that NASA is adrift without a coherent vision for where it should be going. The report by the National Academy of Sciences doesn't blame the space agency. It faults the president, Congress and the nation. (AP Photo/NASA) | AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA, the agency that epitomized the “Right Stuff,” seems lost in space and doesn’t have a clear sense of where it is going, an independent panel of science and engineering experts said in a stinging report Wednesday.

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