Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA), ranking member of the House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee, and five other Republican Congressmen tomorrow (Thursday, March 11) will hold a press conference calling for NASA Administrator Bolden to appoint a team to report back before President Obama's April 15 "space conference" on how to maintain uninterrupted human access to space, according to SpacePolicyOnline.What is so unusual about Wolf's approach is that Dulles, VA-based Orbital Sciences Corporation's headquarters is in his Congressional District. The commercial space launch firm has a $1.9 billion contract to begin launching commercial cargo to the International Space Station from Wallops Island, VA. next year. Orbital's corporate officers have spoke in favor of the Obama space policy and budget.
In addition, Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell has said that he wants to make Virginia's spaceport the top commercial space launch hub in the nation; and, the Virginia General Assembly has adopted resolutions urging adoption of the President's federal NASA FY 2011 budget that benefits Virginia in reaching the commercial spaceport goals.
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