NASA AEROSPACE SAFETY ADVISORY PANEL, JANUARY 2022

NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel met in public session on January 11, 2022. As summarized by SpacePolicyOnline.com’s in “Safety Panel: NASA Urgently Must Define Its Future Role in Human Spaceflight,” ASAP said NASA is at an inflection point as it relies more and more on partnerships with the commercial sector. NASA “urgently must strategically define its future role and articulate a vision and principles to guide it for at least the next 20 years” especially with regard to the Artemis program to return astronauts to the lunar surface.