Politico: NASA Stalemate Broken
Politico
7/15/2010
It was one of those moments of bipartisanship that come rarely in the upper chamber – Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tx.) and four others announcing a breakthrough in a five-month stalemate over the future of the country’s space program.
But seemingly missing from that political picture: the White House, which started the conversation about NASA’s direction in the first place.
Sure, the NASA blueprint that Senate Democratic and Republican authorizers on the Commerce Committee approved unanimously on Thursday mimicked at least the spirit of what the Obama administration originally suggested — a role for private contractors in space transportation, a total revision to the Constellation program and a more refined focus on the technology needed to reach Mars. At least one lawmaker signaled that the administration would even send clear support for the Senate's plan for NASA by the day’s end.
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