Mikulski Opposes Life Extension for Space Shuttle

摘要

U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) registered her opposition April 3 to a proposal circulating on Capitol Hill to keep the space shuttle flying until its successors, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle and Ares 1 rocket, are ready to enter service. Mikulski, who chairs the Senate Appropriations commerce, justice, science subcommittee, said she would prefer instead to see NASA get the additional money it would need to field Orion and Ares in late 2013, the earliest the agency thinks it could get the job done with additional money.