B612 Response to NASA’s 2007 NEO Report to Congress Stirs Controversy
May 1, 2007
B612 responds to NASA NEO report to Congress and points out technical flaws.
NASA’s NEO report to Congress stirred considerable controversy due to both its rejection of Congress’s request for a recommended program to support the new Spaceguard Survey goal and its technically flawed deflection analysis. The analytic work supporting the summary report to Congress was withheld from public review by NASA, despite it having been published as a 3-color glossy “Final Report” and distributed internally.
Rusty Schweickart and Clark Chapman have separately reviewed NASA’s Final Report. They have provided their critiques to NASA, appealing to the Administrator to review and revise the NASA analysis, correct the many technical errors and rethink recommendations and conclusions in the report to Congress.
