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Texas, Florida Senators Present Bipartisan Front On Space Launch System

Senators Nelson And Hutchison Again Call For Acceleration Of SLS Development

U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) (pictured) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) have renewed their call on the White House to move forward with the development of a Space Launch System rated to carry people into low Earth orbit and to the ISS.

Senator Hutchison

“A just-completed, NASA-commissioned independent cost assessment by Booz Allen Hamilton found that development of the Space Launch System, Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and complementary ground system was feasible within authorized funding levels and timelines," the Senators said in a joint statement. "This was expected; NASA experts had verified and re-verified estimated costs several times.

"Rather than announce these results and move forward with development, the administration’s budget office has kept the independent cost report under wraps.  Instead, a wildly inflated set of NASA cost numbers was invented, based on an imaginary “acceleration” of SLS development. Under these contrived numbers, which were leaked in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, development costs were forecast to increase to $57 billion – nearly double the amount that NASA and Booz Allen Hamilton agreed would be needed in the independent cost assessment.

Senator Nelson

"No one has proposed to accelerate development. We and others have – repeatedly – demanded that the administration’s budget office simply follow the development plan that the President signed into law last year. It has been validated repeatedly, internally and externally (including the OMB requested Booz Allen Hamilton report), as a sound approach for going forward and maintaining our leadership in manned space exploration. Accelerated development is a convenient myth. The White House should proceed immediately according to the reasonable, achievable development timetable embedded in federal law, and preserve America’s pre-eminence in space."

FMI: http://hutchison.senate.gov, http://billnelson.senate.gov

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