Posted by Ray Katz in NASA, current
Tiny hope for Constellation
Houston Congressman Culberson, other, still trying to save Constellation.
A Houston Congressman. John Culberson, warns that NASA’s manned flight program will be going on “indefinite hiatus” if the moon/Mars program, Constellation, is canceled–as the president wants.
Congress, which has doubts about the new plan for research and (eventual) return to manned flight, is trying to save the current program.
I don’t believe Congress can pull lthis off, although I applaud the effort.
In any case, with our astronauts spending the last few decades in earth orbit, the public is bored with it. There’s no popular groundswell for manned spaceflight.
Because of this, even assuming NASA truly expects to send astronauts to an asteroid, nobody’s going to provide the money.
