Nasa is not properly emphasising safety in its design of a new spaceship and its return-to-the-Moon programme faces money, morale and leadership problems, an agency safety panel found today.

Nasa is not properly emphasising safety in its design of a new spaceship and its return-to-the-moon programme faces money, morale and leadership problems, an agency safety panel found today.

CREWS combed suburban gardens and remote Texas woodlands for the remains of space shuttle Columbia yesterday as experts focused on a heat surge on the left side of the doomed spacecraft in the early investigation of why it disintegrated.