House SS&T Hearing on SLS and Orion, December 2014

The Space Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology (SS&T) Committee held a hearing on December 10, 2014 to discuss the status of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion programs.   NASA’s Bill Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, and the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO’s) Cristina Chaplain testified, but what was perhaps more interesting was the absence of NASA Chief Financial Officer (CFO) David Radzanowski who had been invited to appear.  NASA and subcommittee chairman Rep. Steve Palazzo (R-MS) have different takes on how that came to pass.   SpacePolicyOnline.com published a summary of the hearing on December 11, 2014 including NASA’s explanation for why Radzanowski was not there.