HSS&T Hearing on ISS and the Soyuz Launch Failure: SpacePolicyOnline.com Hearing Notes

On October 12, 2011, the subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology held a hearing to discuss the impact on operations of the International Space Station (ISS) of the failure of Russia’s Soyuz rocket on August 24, 2011 when it was attempting to send a Progress cargo spacecraft to the ISS. This SpacePolicyOnline.com summary of the hearing appeared as an article on SpacePolicyOnline.com on October 12 under the title “NASA Confident of Russian Launch Failure Analysis; Wants Another INKSNA Waiver.”