NASA Scientists Display Intelligent Disobedience

NASA scientists and engineers made a very tough call. They cancelled the Mars Lander mission that was scheduled for this week because of a persistent leak that would have rendered a key scientific experiment unreliable. Why do I say this was a tough call? Due to the realities of interplanetary travel the next launch window will not occur until 2017. The other reality of how much it would cost to keep the mission intact until then may mean it doesn’t occur at all. Imagine the substantial pr...