Enlarge / NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio, formerly known as Plum Brook Station, is the world’s largest space test chamber.NASA/Michelle Murphy
It’s big news when a hurricane damages buildings at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center or hits a rocket factory in New Orleans. There’s damage that needs repairing immediately so missions can move forward to launch.
But there’s a deeper problem with NASA’s infrastructure. Erik Weiser, director of NASA’s facilities and real estate division, told a blue-ribbon National Academies panel Thursday that the agency’s budget for maintenance and construction is “wholly underfunded.”
In his presentation to the National Academies
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