NASA Shifts Aeronautics Effort Back to Basic Research

NASA's new aeronautics chief, Lisa Porter, has set up a "Foundational Technology" shop that will concentrate on basic aeronautics research. Administrator Michael Griffin tells the House Science Committee that if NASA had been funding more state-of-the-art aero research, it probably could have...

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