Posted on 04/10/2006 5:01:03 PM PDT by KevinDavis
On March 30th, the “Science, the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, and Related Agencies” subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee held a hearing simply titled “National Aeronautics and Space Administration”, with NASA administrator Michael Griffin as the sole witness. By all appearances this looked to be a routine hearing where members of the subcommittee discussed issues regarding the fiscal year 2007 budget proposal with the administrator, a common early step in the overall appropriations process. As a result, the hearing—which, unlike many other congressional hearings today, was not webcast—got little attention in the press or the space community in general.
(Excerpt) Read more at thespacereview.com ...
Chicom nose in the door to steal more tech bump.
Cooperation was thoroughly exercised and is done with on the ISS project. Dead issue.
"The belief—that the US and China are engaged in a space race, presumably to send people to the Moon, or back to the Moon in America’s case—was shared by several other committee members at the hearing. “If China beats us there, we will have lost the space program,” Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), the subcommittee chairman, said, according to Space News."
While I don't think we will have "lost" the space program, we certainly will be in a similar position as in 1957. when the Soviet Union stunned the world with the launch on the Sputnik.
The Chicoms could get this information from the Russians. So what is the big deal here???
The russians have all of our current space tech?
Yes, they work with us on the ISS, so they have access to all of our space tech.
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