Stellar Deception: Disinformation’s Threat to Effective Space Incident Response

Identification of disinformation threats must be integrated into space incident response and cybersecurity frameworks.

Over seven days in April 1970, Gene Kranz solidified his legend in the long history of legends at NASA. Kranz was the flight director credited with bringing the Apollo 13 astronauts home after a near-catastrophic equipment failure. Kranz’s quick and decisive thinking in the face of unclear and incomplete information led to a series of solutions to the r…