On March 1, 2012, NASA officials admitted to a congressional panel, that they lost critical command codes for the International Space Station!

The codes were stored on a laptop computer, which was stolen last year!

The admission came from NASA’s Inspector General, Paul Martin, in a written statement. NASA experienced more than 5,000 computer security breeches, just in the last year!

NASA also admitted that from 2009 to 2011, 48 mobile computers were lost or stolen!  The cost to U.S. taxpayers, for the lax computer security at NASA, is estimated at $7 million!