[Norm Lenhart]

NASA needs to be fully defunded until they leave the global warming industry and every global warmist on staff is blacklisted and repays salary for the years they did not do their jobs.

THEY pay. Not any PAC or the DNC. THEY. If that puts America out of the space race, step up prosecution efforts. Make scientists fear ever being involved with democrats ever again.

[Nifster]

And not mentioned at all but should be is that money sucking vampire of a mess known as the James Webb Space Telescope. A useless piece of extreme waste that is sooooo far over budget and continuing to drain from other programs

[Cincinatus]

Nobody has mentioned the real outrage here -- giving the title "commercial crew" to a program that is nothing more than government corporate welfare, a large fraction going to feed Elon Musk's Mars colonization fantasies, no less.

If these two contractors are truly "commercial" entities, I am sure that they can easily make up the funding shortfall from sources of private capital.

[originalbuckeye]

What ‘American spaceflight capability’, Mr Bolden?? IIRC, your job as NASA Administrator is Muslim outreach, yes? Our Space program has been offloaded to a few companies who get lots of ‘incentive’ to work on Space exploration. What a morass our country is caught in.........you need not look further than the oval office to see the state of the union.