NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden this morning is testifying about NASA's 2012 budget request before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
Click on the link to watch a Webcast or here for the same on NASA TV's media channel. Here's some background material on the proposed budget.
Committee chairman Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, immediately criticized NASA's plan to increase proposed funding for commercial crew initiatives, whose safety he questioned, while spending less than authorized on a heavy-lift system for exploration.
"We're exasperated that NASA is not listening to our message," said Hall.
Before the hearing, a group of more than 50 space industry leaders, former NASA astronauts and executives and commercial advocates released a letter saying the commercial crew program was "critical to the health of the Nation's human spaceflight efforts."
Read the letter here.
Bolden reiterated that Atlantis will fly a third and final shuttle mission this summer unless Congress approves drastic cuts in 2011 funding.
"If you take drastic action and significantly reduce the amount of money I get whenever I get a 2011 budget, that could change things," he said.
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