The astronaut who led a Japan space agency team implicated in data tampering prioritized continuing to conduct research over reporting a mistake immediately to the organization's ethics committee in 2018, according to a source connected to the experiment.Satoshi Furukawa, the third Japanese person to have completed a long-term mission in space, was responsible for the experiment that ran from 2016 to 2017 and simulated life on the International Space Station. Late last month, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency publicly revealed tampering had occurred.The source has said the mistake, fou…READ FULL ARTICLE
