House Hearing on Delays to the First SLS/Orion Launch, November 2017

The Space Subcommittee on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee held a hearing on November 9, 2017 to receive an update from NASA on its Exploration Systems program — the Space Launch System (SLS), Orion crew spacecraft and associated Exploration Ground Systems.  NASA had announced the previous day that the first launch of SLS with an uncrewed Orion, Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1),  would be delayed from November 2018 to at least December 2019 and perhaps to June 2020.

Witnesses were Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, and Sandy Magnus, Executive Director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

SpacePolicyOnline.com published a brief summary of the hearing on November 9.