Congressman Frank Wolf Releases Correspondence About Impact of Cancelling NASA's Constellation Program
Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA), ranking member of the House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee, has posted the text of correspondence he had about the President’s proposal to terminate the Constellation program with Burt Rutan and several former astronauts and NASA officials. He quoted from the letters and emails in his statement to the CJS subcommittee during a hearing on Wednesday with Presidential Science Adviser John Holdren. They are available on the Congressman’s website and include correspondence with:
- Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites, perhaps best known today as the designer of SpaceShipOne, winner of the Ansari X-Prize
- Former astronauts Walter Cunningham, Charlie Duke, and Harrison Schmitt (also a former U.S. Senator)
- Former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and former Johnson Space Center Director Chris Kraft
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