THERE is never a dull moment at NASA. When the space agency isn’t busy breaking in a new administrator, trying to get the space shuttle off the ground, or fixing the latest spacecraft malfunction, it has to cope with the likes of Marina Bai.
The Russian astrologer is trying to persuade a Moscow court to hear her suit charging that when the space agency’s Deep Impact mission fires a 370-kilogram copper probe at Comet Tempel 1 on 4 July it will destroy the icy body. This, she claims, will violate “the natural balance of the…
