Briefly: Shelby versus Florida; Blue Origin’s test failure and CCDev

By Jeff Foust on 2011 September 4 at 10:34 am ET

A couple brief notes on a quiet holiday weekend:

A little over a week ago, Florida Sens. Bill Nelson (D) and Marco Rubio (R) sent a letter to the White House countering claims in another letter by five other senators that money appropriated for the Space Launch System (SLS) was being “misallocated” to facility upgrades […]

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Briefly: little love for SLS; lobbying change at SpaceX

By Jeff Foust on 2011 September 1 at 7:02 am ET

For Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Thomas, it’s a question of what’s the lesser evil: “We can either go billions over budget on mismanaged science projects, or we can go billions over budget on even more mismanaged manned-spaceflight programs,” he writes in a column today. Thomas, who has been a critic of human spaceflight activities in […]

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