Congress Presses NASA Chief on Domestic and Foreign Space Threats

Space.com ^ | April 9, 2014 | Dan Leone

[lbryce]

What in another year might have been a routine hearing about NASA’s annual budget request turned into a heated, and sometimes partisan, exchange about the agency’s internal security practices and the broad state of the U.S. human spaceflight program.

In theory, the purpose of the April 8 hearing of the House Appropriations, commerce, justice, science subcommittee was to allow lawmakers charged with writing NASA’s 2015 appropriation to ask questions about the roughly $17.5 billion budget request the agency released in March.

In practice, the hearing was a double feature that paired a review of security practices at NASA field centers, spearheaded by subcommittee chairman Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), with a budget briefing from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. In an unusual twist, Bolden was formally sworn in by Wolf before testifying. [NASA Space Tech, Science & Exploration Goals in 2015 in Pictures (Gallery)]

[lbryce]

NASA chief Charles Bolden testified before members of Congress on April 8, 2014.

Wolf then switched the subject to NASA’s human spaceflight program, asking Charles Boden about its status.

Bolden responded with hesitation, then was embolden to ask,"You mean the Apollo Moon program?" /SARC

[Joe Boucher]

NASA has become like ALL federal gub mint agencies.
Bloated worthless and afraid to do anything other than f-ing moose limb outreach.
What a crock.

[SunkenCiv]

> In an unusual twist, Bolden was formally sworn in by Wolf before testifying.

As if that would make a difference to any member of the Obama regime. Thanks lbryce.