Comments on: Congress may need a little more time to complete FY14 appropriations

By: Malmesbury

Malmesbury — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:58:18 +0000

To put the $352 million in a real space context…. That is more than NASA paid Orbital under COTS. The price of a new rocket and cargo delivery capsule.

By: common sense

common sense — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:04:35 +0000

Considering NASA did not want SLS and Congress forced it I would not hold my breath.

The whole program was a directive from Congress to waste money so what’s $352M ?

Oh well.

By: Dark Blue Nine

Dark Blue Nine — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:46:03 +0000

Since the NASA IG found that the SLS program wasted $352 million on an unneeded, duplicative SSC test stand, maybe Congress could cut the FY14 SLS budget by the same amount and redirect those funds somewhere useful.

http://nasawatch.com/archives/2014/01/oig-slaps-nasa.html

Instead of papering over pork, Congress could actually exercise its oversight function for once.