The Senate committee with NASA oversight has begun a hearing on "Assessing Commercial Space Capabilities."Click here to watch a live Webcast of the committee hearing from Washington, D.C.
Here's a list of the witnesses with links to prepared testimony where available:
-- Lt. Gen. Thomas Stafford, retired U.S. Air Force and NASA astronaut.
-- Bryan O'Connor, chief, Safety and Mission Assurance, NASA
-- George Nield, associate administrator for commercial space transportation, FAA
-- Malcolm Peterson, former NASA comptroller
-- Michael Gass, president and CEO, United Launch Alliance
-- Frank Culbertson Jr., senior vice president and deputy general manager, Advanced Programs Group, Orbital Sciences Corporation
-- Gwynne Shotwell, president, SpaceX
Click here for opening remarks by committee chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller, and here for remarks by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, the ranking minority member.
NASA is proposing to turn over the transportation of crews to low Earth orbit to commercial launch companies instead of developing and operating its own rocket fleet.
President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2011 budget would cancel NASA's Constellation moon program and offer $6 billion over five years to help commercial companies develop rockets and spacecraft as soon as 2016.
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