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Hill Continues To Scrutinize NASA Commercial-Crew Plan

Julie Samuel

Monday, March 26th, 2012

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NASA continued to defend its commercial-crew program last week, when a lead House budget-writer questioned the plan for government to help private commercial companies develop systems to carry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), chairman of the House Appropriations commerce, justice, science subcommittee, questioned at a March 21 hearing what would happen if commercial systems come online after the ISS is shut down, presumably in 2020. “If we are even reasonably concerned that the commercial-crew…

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