Ensuring Scientific Integrity at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration “4. Agencies should make publicly available all Conflict of Interest waivers granted to committee members. NASA is committed to making publicly available the names of all committee members receiving Conflict of Interest waivers: * NASA practice is to grant such waivers rarely. * NASA anticipates revising NPD 1150.11 by October 31, 2011, to stipulate that the Agency will make publicly […]

NASA inspector general faults space agency boss, Houston Chronicle “NASA’s chief found himself mired in another controversy Monday, this time for making “inappropriate” contact with an oil company while considering an alternative fuel project. The space agency’s inspector general reported that a 10-minute phone conversation last April between Administrator Charles Bolden Jr. and a senior Marathon Oil Corp. official was inconsistent with the ethics pledge he signed upon taking office […]