Senate Press Conference on NASA Reauthorization Bill

Today, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas and Ranking Member on the Committee, held a press conference with Senate colleagues to announce that earlier today the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee had unanimously approved legislation cosponsored by Sen. Hutchison to safeguard America's human spaceflight capabilities while balancing commercial space investment with a robust mission for NASA. The bill was sponsored by Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and cosponsored by Senators Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), David Vitter (R-La.) and George LeMieux (R-Fla.). (July 15, 2010)

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[fireking9934]

@entropy504 yes.. all LEO stuff should be done by commercial companies

BUT

beyond low earth orbit, should solely be NASA's job

[dks13827]

I cant wait to see that big guy launch !!!

[dks13827]

I cant wait to see that big guy launch !!!

[BernzSed]

@sirachman Saturn V was also REALLY expensive.

[sirachman]

@moneyman10k ?! Saturn V was liquid.

[sirachman]

Yay we saved jobs by moving money from commercial space to funding dead-end heavy lift funding. Even if we build the thing it will take so much to support its infastructure that we wont have money left to pay for missions. Good luck SpaceX and Orbital, your our only hope for possibly the next 20 years or more...

[pacificguitarist]

@quantumG

Yes and no. Though I would rather that half the funds for COTS would not have been cut for this bill.... still maintains the best of Obama's plan. This pretty much IS obama's plan... with the exception of the HLLV. ( Yes I know there are other differences but this is the biggie.)

[DukeNukemIsHere3]

I am extremely pleased with this.

[charles8499]

The Direct Launcher design is superior and it is the fastest and easiest way to migrate from the shuttle to Orion.

[entropy504]

NASA should maintain a research and development role. Designing, building, and manitaining repetitive launches to LEO is a commercial activity. Look at Apollo; NASA did the R&D, provided the funding, and commercial built it. Look at SpaceX- they've come a long way and done an admirable job as a small commercial entity.