Friday, July 22, 2011
"Congress Grills NASA Chief Over Next Big Rocket Design | NASA & Deep Space Exploration | Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle & Space Launch System"
I suspect most Americans took pride in NASA's accomplishments over time.
Now, it seems to have become purely a government agency with layers of bureaucracy and not so many potentially exciting goals and projects.
It probably really IS time to turn stuff over to the private sector...
Now, it seems to have become purely a government agency with layers of bureaucracy and not so many potentially exciting goals and projects.
It probably really IS time to turn stuff over to the private sector...
Michael Wall wrote about it at Space.com:
"Last year Congress gave NASA until mid-January 2011 to pick a design for the rocket, known as the Space Launch System, that will carry astronauts on deep space missions. NASA still has not made an official decision, and members of the House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space and Technology took Bolden to task.
'We've waited for answers that have not come. We've pleaded for answers that have not come,' committee chairman Ralph Hall (R-Texas) told Bolden. 'We've run out of patience.'
Hall said the committee reserves the right to open an investigation into the delays, but he hopes it won't come to that.
'The White House has done you wrong, but nonetheless you have to answer for these continued failures,' said Hall, whose panel is made up of 23 Republicans and 17 Democrats."
