Proposed changes to NASA's exploration program
Subtitle: what's known, what's not, and what are the issues for Congress? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, March 24, 2010
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780160871962
Subjects: United States; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Exploration
Description: The Subcommittee examines proposed changes to the exploration program, including (1) cancellation of the Constellation Program, (2) investment in the development of a new "commercial crew" space transport industry, (3) provision of additional funding to commercial space cargo demonstration [COTS] providers, (4) establishment of a new research and technology program in support of human exploration, and (5) plans to develop and conduct precursor robotic missions; the status of the Constellation Program, including the results of the recent program level Preliminary Design Review; the workforce, industrial base, and contractual implications of the administration's proposed changes to NASA's exploration program, were they to be implemented; and the applicability of work completed by NASA, including activities carried out in the Constellation Program, to exploration options available to the Nation.
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