Editor’s note: It has been more than 2 weeks since the NASA Advisory Council met – and the presentations from that meeting are still not online. This is a notable departure from the previous norm in recent years where the NAC was very good about posting things online within days – sometimes hours – of a meeting.

Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member...