Bet they listen to Texas---like they did on Shuttle

Texans tell NASA: Don’t close key research facility at Houston’s JSC
 
Houston Chronicle's Texas on the Potomac
 
Texans in the House – Republicans and Democrats alike – are fighting NASA’s plan to close down a test facility at Houston’s Johnson Space Center that’s used to assess the impact of re-entry on spacecraft materials and structures. Twenty-seven House members from Texas – and three colleagues from districts with ties to NASA in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida – made their pitch in a letter to NASA administrator Charles Bolden. The letter, put together by Rep. Pete Olson, a Republican whose Sugar Land district includes JSC, asks NASA too “reconsider this decision and immediately suspend any further actions to close or take the JSC `arc-jet’ facility offline until we have an opportunity to fully review” the decision.
 
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