Senators question removal of NASA’s chief Moon manager
JUN 01, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024378
New York Times : Two key elements of President Obama’s space policy—lowering the priority of a manned mission to the Moon; increasing NASA’S reliance on commercial launch vehicles—involve canceling NASA’s costly home-grown launcher, Ares. But if Ares could be made more cheaply, could it survive? The head of NASA’s Moon program, Jeffrey Hanley, was pursuing that option when he was removed last week from his position. Two senators, John D. Rockefeller (D-WV) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), have asked NASA’s inspector general to “examine whether this or other recent actions by NASA were intended or could reasonably have been expected to foreclose the ability of Congress to consider meaningful alternatives.”
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