Ohio Delegation Calls on NASA To Fire ISS Nonprofit

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Members of Ohio's congressional delegation urged NASA to strip a Florida nonprofit of its status as manager of the international space station's national laboratory and give the job to a Cleveland-based group instead."In light of the events of the last six months, culminating with the resignation of the head of the Center for Advancement in Science and Space (CASIS), we are writing to encourage you to reconsider your contract, and express our strong support for reconsideration of the Space Laboratory Associates proposal to manage the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory," the lawmakers wrote in an April 4 letter to Mark Uhran, NASA assistant associate administrator for ISS.U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) took the lead on the letter, which was co-signed by 13 of Ohio's 18 U.S. representatives and published on Brown's website.NASA spokesman Mike Curie said April 4 that "no decision has been made at this time to take any action to alter the CASIS cooperative agreement."