The NASA inspector general says
the space agency is breaking the law by allowing conflicts of interest on a
board overseeing the building of a new spaceship to return astronauts to the
moon.
The board
is set up to review NASA's new Orion capsule. The panel is loaded with
employees of the contractors it is supposed to scrutinize, the inspector
general report says.
The report
says the board chairman and five other members work for contractors hired by
NASA for the multi-billion-dollar space shuttle replacement program. Four of
the six are also stockholders in firms making money off the NASA project, the
report says.
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