Alan Boyle has the story on yesterday’s space-policy farce on the Hill. Jeff Foust also has a couple posts, with meeting notes, and a description of the “ruckus” caused by Jeff Hanley’s abrupt reassignment from the Constellation program.
I wish that someone (like a staffer, or former staffer) would suggest to Dana Rohrabacher that the next time Tom Young is brought forth to testify at one of these joke sessions, he ask him what experience he has with human spaceflight. Because the answer is pretty much zip.
[Update a few minutes later]
As usual (and this isn’t Alan’s fault, obviously) but ignorance abounds in his comments section, with one commenter saying we should just “…finish the Aries-1 [sic] capsules for LEO…”
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., noted that the list of witnesses wasn’t exactly balanced.
At least he got your point in.
Personally, I’m still wondering who the “prominent Russian academician” is that Gene Cernan was relying on for his often-repeated claim that commercial crew would take 10 years to complete.