Venice—With only days to go before his term as special administrator in charge of Italy's space agency, ASI, comes to an end, engineer Silvano Casini has stirred up a hornets' nest by presenting a 10-year plan for ASI to a parliamentary technology committee in Rome last week. In calling for more international collaboration, Casini's plan flies in the face of recommendations made in February by a government-appointed panel. He drew censure from the research ministry for announcing unapproved proposals without their consent.