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NASA Review Board Stacked With Contractors

An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

A board set up to review construction of the spaceship to return astronauts to the moon is loaded with employees of the very contractors they are supposed to scrutinize, breaking federal law, a government watchdog says.

The board chairman, former Skylab astronaut Ed Gibson, and five other members work for companies hired by NASA on the multi-billion-dollar space shuttle replacement program.

The NASA inspector general, the agency's in-house watchdog, calls that a conflict of interest and recommends suspending the six board members.

posted by Fergie @ 4/30/2008 05:44:00 PM