Senate Hearing on Partnerships to Advance the Business of Space

Prepared Statement by Wayne Hale
“Poised on the cusp of these new systems, we run the risk of being penny wise and pound foolish as we make the same mistake that doomed the space shuttle to much higher cost operations: starving a spacecraft development program in the name of saving a few pennies for today’s budget bottom line resulting in the compromised systems that, if they fly at all, will not be cheap enough to enable business in space.”
– Prepared Statement by Steven Collicott
– Prepared Statement by Patti Grace Smith
– Prepared Statement by Michael Lopez-Alegria