NASA is thinking about putting up crew on its very first flight.
And yet they continue to delay commercial crew because “safety is the highest priority.”
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A congressional staffer told me about this last week: A hearing on NASA’s past, past, past and present, no future.
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More from Eric Berger.
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Joel Achenback weighs in.
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Thoughts from Keith Cowing. Yes, it’s a Hail Mary. And reckless, in my opinion. If it was to save the world, OK, but to save a bloated jobs program?
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Here’s Marcia Smith’s take.
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And here’s the story from the Chrises at NASA Spaceflight.
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And Jeff Foust’s take. Excellent point in comments:
If NASA agree[s] to this (putting astronauts on 1st flight of brand new rocket), they better not whine about SpaceX loading astronauts before fuel.
Indeed.