Decisive budget fight ahead for commercial crew program
Stephen Clark – SpaceflightNow.com
After NASA chief Charles Bolden fielded blistering questions from Congress last week on the agency’s commercial crew initiative, officials said NASA must emphasize the program’s urgency and quell expectations ahead of upcoming budget negotiations, during which a crucial SpaceX commercial cargo test flight will attempt to reach the International Space Station, a symbolic mission for the burgeoning private human spaceflight industry. “I had to turn off the hearings,” said Phil McAlister, head of NASA’s commercial spaceflight effort. “If I heard another senator say, ‘commercial crew sucks’ … I had to turn it off because it was just too much. That’s because of this change we’re trying to implement, which a lot of people are not comfortable with.”
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