Tuesday, April 3, 2012

CC and the Senate

Senate appropriators offer rebuke of commercial crew
 
Stephen Clark - SpaceflightNow.com
 
Unhappy with delays, shifting contracting strategies and a proposed budget increase, lawmakers took aim on NASA's commercial crew initiative last week in a continuing narrative of questioning as the agency fights to maintain the program's relevance. Some legislators, fearing job losses in their constituencies, have viewed the commercial crew program with skepticism since it was announced as NASA's near-term strategy for human spaceflight when the Obama administration canceled the behind-schedule Constellation moon program in 2010.
 
Two NASA Space Shuttles

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