While the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee will take up commercial spaceflight policy issues Wednesday morning, the Senate Commerce Committee’s space subcommittee will be meeting at the same time for a hearing on ISS research. Two panels of speakers are planned, including NASA associate administrator Bill Readdy and astronaut Mike Fincke. Sen. Hutchison, who chairs the subcommittee, had been planning a hearing on this topic for some time; she is also planning to hold a hearing, probably next month, on the future of the space shuttle.
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There is a third hearing Wednesday morning before the House Appropriations Subcommittee with Fred Gregory defending NASA’s FY2006 budget request.
In a tiny room in the Capitol, to boot.