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Palazzo Expresses Concern Over Commercial Crew’s ‘Compressed’ Timelines

Friday, February 27th, 2015

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A key lawmaker expressed concern Feb. 4 with what he called the “compressed” timelines in NASA’s Commercial Crew program (CCP).House Science, Space and Technology (SST) Space Subcommittee Chairman Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.) said he’s also concerned with a “lack of consensus” on an acquisition strategy that reflects “realistic budget projections” for CCP, which is NASA’s program to use commercial companies to taxi astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). NASA currently contracts with Russia to get astronauts to and…

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