By Emelie Rutherford Lawmakers vexed by President Barack Obama's attempt to cancel the Constellation moon-exploration program grilled NASA's leader Feb. 25 about its plan to help commercial companies build human-spaceflight vehicles. House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) said he fears the space agency's plan to spend taxpayer money on generating a commercial crew-transporting industry could end up making those firms "too important to fail" and "wards of the state." NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, during the contentious hearing…
NASA Authorizers Skeptical About Obama’s Shift To Commercial Spacecraft
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