CONGRESSMEN: NO TO SPACE PLANE

Congressional overseers may put the brakes on the Orbital Space Plane — NASA’s planned near-Earth ship to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
In a letter, Leaders of the House Science Committee told NASA chief Sean O’Keefe that work on the Plane should be put on ice until “we — the Congress, the White House, and NASA — have reached any agreement… on appropriate NASA goals for human space flight” and on how the craft fits in with those plans.

October 28th, 2003 | Space | Comments Off