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Thursday, April 22, 2010

"Glitz and the glory" for Private Rocketeers?

It's "all part of the glitz and the glory" of the Obama administration's focus on using commercially developed and operated spacecraft to get crews into orbit, influential Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland said in joining Republican members of the Senate appropriations subcommittee in challenging the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's proposals as risky and lacking sound technical support.

"I have 13 pages of questions," Mikulski, the subcommittee chair, told Bolden. "Where are we going, when will we get there, and what will it take?" [Video of the subcommittee hearing April 22, 2010]

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