NASA faces subpoena on heavy-lift rocket work
The space war continues: Several senators are threatening to subpoena NASA over what they perceive as the agency’s foot-dragging in building a heavy-lift rocket.
Idiots. They give NASA less money and less time to build the program-formerly-called-Constellation, and then are surprised when things don’t go well. Of course, it doesn’t help that the Obama administration is trying to sabotage the project anyway.
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The space war continues: Several senators are threatening to subpoena NASA over what they perceive as the agency’s foot-dragging in building a heavy-lift rocket.
Idiots. They give NASA less money and less time to build the program-formerly-called-Constellation, and then are surprised when things don’t go well. Of course, it doesn’t help that the Obama administration is trying to sabotage the project anyway.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Since your post you linked to with ” less money and less time” one other major change has happened. Congress has pointedly acknowledged that COTS/CRS failed, and not only did the gov need to throw a lot of money into the “commercial” development plot to build the “COTS” folks up to the point they had anything Commercial (or not) On The Shelf to offer, when the Benjamin’s were all counted up, the gov spent more per ton to ISS in COTS then it was paying in its pork and bloat loaded traditional launch services. Course Congress and NASA will use this as “proof” commercial can NEVER be cost competitive, not just that they screwed up the COTS project to much to save any money.
The several Senators/Idiots you refer to or the Chairman/Ranking Member of the full committee in charge (in the Senate) of NASA appropriations. They speak (in this case) for the full committee. Be as snarky as you want, it will not make this go away.