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Lead Members On House Science Panel Call For OSP Suspension
Washington - Oct 27, 2003 Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) and Ranking Democrat Ralph M. Hall (D-TX) recently sent a letter to NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, expressing their "deep concern with NASA's current approach to the Orbital Space Plane (OSP) Program," and urging O'Keefe to "defer the current program until the inter-agency space review is completed, approved by the President, and thoroughly vetted with the Congress." Boehlert and Hall warned, "Without such consensus on a shared vision�public support for the Nation's civilian space program will inevitably founder." The Members outlined two primary concerns in their letter, a copy of which is attached to this release. First, that "NASA is proceeding with OSP development before we - the Congress, the White House, and NASA - have reached any agreement either on appropriate NASA goals for human space flight beyond the International Space Station, or on the extent to which OSP is an appropriate approach to support those goals." Second, "given NASA's current cost estimates for the program, the OSP five-year budget plan that accompanied the FY 2004 NASA budget request is clearly no longer credible."
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Successful First Test For Vega's Zefiro 9 Engine
Paris, France(ESA) Dec 28, 2005Flames, smoke and a deafening noise accompanied the first firing test of Vega's Zefiro 9 third-stage solid rocket motor. A first examination of the data indicates that everything went well at the test carried out yesterday at Salto de Quirra in southeast Sardinia. |
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