Aging, overworked and underfunded: NASA faces a dire future, according to experts
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Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking, and ambitions that far outstrip its funding are just a few of the problems threatening the future of America's vaunted civil space agency, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
In a report commissioned by Congress, experts said that a number of the agency's technological resources are suffering, including the Deep Space Network—an international collection of giant radio antennas that is overseen by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge.
Report authors warned that NASA has, for too long, prioritized near-term missions at the cost of long-term investments in its infrastructure, workforce and technology.
