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.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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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.