Next week is going to be a busy week for the House Science Committee, with two hearings by the full committee on space issues and another hearing by the space and aeronautics subcommittee.
On Thursday the 28th at 2 pm the full committee plans to hold a hearing titled “Implementing the Vision for Space Exploration: Development of the Crew Exploration Vehicle”. This is the long-anticipated hearing on the GAO study released earlier this summer that criticized NASA for pushing the CEV/Orion program ahead too quickly. The witnesses will be NASA associate administrator for exploration Scott Horowitz and Allen Li from the GAO.
On Friday the 29th at 10 am the full committee will meet again to tackle another GAO report, titled “GAO Report on NOAA’s Weather Satellite Program”. (It’s not clear is this is a reference to the GAO report on NPOESS from March or another, perhaps as-yet-unreleased report.) David Powner of the GAO and NOAA administrator Conrad C. Lautenbacher will be the witnesses.
The space and aeronautics subcommittee, meanwhile, will be meeting on Tuesday the 26th at 10 am on “Part II: The National Academy of Sciences’ Decadal Plan for Aeronautics: A Blueprint for NASA?”. Lisa Porter, NASA associate administrator for aeronautics, and retired Air Force general William W. Hoover, who co-chaired the panel that produced the decadal plan, are the scheduled witnesses.
