NASA's Laser-Communication Tech for Spacecraft Zaps Forward

NASA spacecraft may soon be able to beam their data home to Earth blazingly fast — with lasers! It can cause frustration and mistakes on the International Space Station, according to a new NASA study — and it's forcing scientists to wait 16 months to get all the data back from the New Horizons spacecraft's historic July 14 flyby of Pluto. But a new, high-precision laser communications system will burst through those old radio-wave barriers for a faster back-and-forth, agency official