Source: The Wall Street Journal
Citing safety and budget concerns, members of a Senate appropriations subcommittee Thursday voiced strong opposition to plans to have private rockets transport astronauts to the international space station by the middle of the decade.
During the panel’s first hearing on the issue, Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, its influential chairman, joined Republican members in challenging the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s proposals as risky and lacking sound technical support.
It’s “all part of the glitz and the glory” of the Obama administration’s focus on using commercially developed and operated spacecraft to get crews into orbit, Sen. Mikulski said.
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