House Hearing on ISS Operations, July 2015

The Space Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on July 10, 2015 on “International Space Station: Addressing Operational Challenges.”  The hearing came after three ISS cargo resupply spacecraft failed over an 8-month period (October 2014-June 2015).  The hearing did not focus specifically on those failures, but broadly on operational challenges facing the ISS today and what will come next after the ISS lifetime comes to an end.  

SpacePolicyOnline.com published an article summarizing the hearing on July 11, 2015.   Witnesses were:

• Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations
• John Elbon, Vice President and General Manger, Space Exploration, The Boeing Company
• Paul Martin, NASA Inspector General
• Shelby Oakley, Acting Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• James Pawelczyk, Associate Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology at The Pennsylvania
  State University, who was a payload specialist on the space shuttle
  STS-90 (Neurolab) mission in 1998.