House SS&T Hearing on America’s Presence in Low Earth Orbit, May 2018

The House Science, Space, and Technology (SS&T) Committee held a hearing on May 17, 2018 on America’s Presence in Low Earth Orbit. The focus was on how long to continue operating the International Space Station and the likelihood that private companies will build new space stations to replace it.  SpacePolicyOnline.com published a summary of the hearing on May 17:  “House Committee Struggles with U.S. Future in LEO.”   The witnesses were:

• Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations
• Bhavya Lal, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Institute for Defense Analyses
• Betsy Cantwell, Arizona State University and co-chair of the National Academies’ Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space