Comments on: Senators support ISS research funding http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/08/11/senators-support-iss-research-funding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=senators-support-iss-research-funding Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Charles Phillips http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/08/11/senators-support-iss-research-funding/#comment-8649 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:59:13 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1070#comment-8649 Part of the proposal smells a lot like another intercenter rivalry issue – JSC trying to get payload operations moved to JSC?

One feature of the proposal was to close the POIC (Marshall payload operations control) and it would undoubtably reopen in a year at JSC. Early Spacelab missions, for instance, were operated (some with Marshall people) from the JSC control building. Some later Spacelab missions were controlled (with JSC people, such as Spacelab Life Sciences 1) from Marshall.

Jan Davis vowed that the POIC would not be moved to JSC while she was around, but she has moved on I believe. But there are plenty of passionate supporters of MSFC still out there.

The whole idea of shutting down science, and laying off numerous people (as proposed), and then going to the expense of recreating the capability in only one year – is hard to understand.

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