Low NASA Budgets Threaten Spaceflight Safety: Report

The biggest threats to safety at NASA might be low budgets and a relative lack of accountability, according to a new report. This and other findings come from the 2015 annual report by the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), which reports to NASA and Congress. For example, it notes that NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) — which is encouraging the development of private spacecraft to fly agency astronauts to and from orbit — doesn't even have a budget yet for 2016, making it ha