NASA faces a major transformation if the 45-year-old agency is to achieve President Bush's goals of returning explorers to the moon and sending manned missions to Mars, members of a White House advisory panel said Tuesday. The proposed changes that will be spelled out in a report from the President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond in early June would likely mean a higher level of federal oversight as well as closer links to private industry, the military and other government agencies. Without the transformation, the space agency will not get the public, political and financial support that will be...
