Article posted: 12/5/2012 1:55 PM

Expert panel: NASA seems lost in space, needs goal

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This July 19, 2011, image shows the International Space Station photographed by a member of Atlantis' STS-135 crew during a fly around as the shuttle departed the station on the last space shuttle mission.

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NASA is adrift without a coherent vision for where it should be going, an independent panel of space, science and engineering experts says. But the report by the National Academy of Sciences doesn't blame the space agency.