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14 news of the week@SCIENCE 之六：美国宇航局迷失方向已有1人参与

本周第六条，原文链接：http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6113/1400.1.full.pdf

Washington, D.C. 6
NASA Lost in Space
美国宇航局迷失方向

A new report released last week by the National Research Council says that NASA doesn’t know where it’s going. The lack of “a national consensus on strategic goals and objectives” has set NASA adrift and is preventing the agency from forging a clear path ahead, the report says.

上周来自国家科学研究委员会一份最新的报告显示，美国宇航局（NASA）现在并不清楚以后的走向。该报告称，因为缺乏“一个全国范围内关于战略目标和任务的共识”，NASA倍感茫然，而且无法制订出一份关于未来的清晰蓝图。

“A current stated interim goal of NASA’s human spaceflight program is to visit an asteroid by 2025,” said Albert Carnesale, a mechanical and aerospace engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who chaired the committee that authored the report. “However, we’ve seen limited evidence that this has been widely accepted as a compelling destination by NASA’s own work force, by the nation as a whole, or by the international community.”

Albert Carnesale是加州大学洛杉矶分校的机械和航空航天工程师，同时也是该报告起草委员会的主席。他表示，“当前NASA人类航天计划宣称的中期目标是到2025年之前造访一颗小行星。但是，我们目前并没有看到足够的证据显示这个目标被NASA内部员工，整个国家，或者国际同行认为是可以实现的。”

The report recommends that Congress, the White House, and NASA pursue a number of options. Those options include restructuring the space agency’s programs to reduce infrastructure and personnel costs; finding ways to partner with other agencies, the private sector, and international partners; increasing NASA’s budget; and shedding programs that don’t fit NASA’s current budget profile.

报告建议国会，白宫和NASA一起寻找可能的出路，包括通过重组空间机构的项目来缩减基础设施和人力成本；寻找和其它研究机构，私人组织以及国际范围的合作关系；消减和目前NASA预算框架不吻合的项目。

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