Congress members slam NASA for lack of moon plans, say the agency is 'scrambling'

[Eugene]

Source: Houston Chronicle

Congress members slam NASA for lack of moon plans, say the agency is 'scrambling'

Alex Stuckey May 8, 2019 Updated: May 8, 2019 3:39 p.m.

NASA officials still have not provided Congress a plan or budget proposal that would allow for a return to the moon four years early -- even though the Trump administration directed the agency to do so in March.

Congressional leaders are getting anxious.

"We're flying blind," U.S. Rep. Kendra Horn, an Oklahoma Democrat, said during a hearing of a subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. "The lack of planning evident so far is no way to run a human exploration program."

She added that the new target date "left NASA scrambling to develop a plan and hastening to pull together a budget amendment that still hasn't been delivered."

But the answer from NASA still is the same: The proposal isn't ready. And it won't be for "several weeks," said Bill Gerstenmaier, the agency's associate administrator for human exploration and operations.

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[wasupaloopa]

1. That kind of thinking kills people

[cstanleytech]

2. Oh sure, bitch about this after under funding them for decades in favor of the military.

[defacto7]

3. Work faster, work faster, just throw something, anything together

for glory... what could possibly go wrong?

[eppur_se_muova]

4. When 45's bright ideas don't work out, it's not NASA's fault.

It's Dickhead-in-Chief and all the little dickheads in the GOP who shill for him.