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What does NASA stand for???.......National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Not the Institute for Quantum and Condensed Matter Physics. It's a space agency, not a physics institute like CERN or Fermilabs. It's job is to run that space program, not conduct physics experiments. The NAS is very prestigious but it's hardly independent. It has it's own agendas that are set by those that do help fund it as well as the individuals who make it up and who fund them. The government may not have any direct funding or say in the academy but it most certainly has a lot of influence over what goes on there. More than you would think. If there are any experiments that NASA can help run for that type of research, then all well and good, but it has many other things to do apart from cater to the whims of condensed matter and quantum physicists. NASA has many other priorities far more critical and necessary to work towards than those they listed.
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