Holdren Gets Grilled On The Hill

Ah too bad Garver wasn't grilled as well to complete the trifecta.

Holdren wants us to study better ways to remove belly button lint. This fella is a joke. He must have gotten his credentials from the same box top that Lori G. did. Please someone stand-up and shout wake up! We have got to stop these folks from gutting the toy box. I am getting more and more angry by the day. The observation made by Culberson was correct on the smug looks that the gang had. These folks think that their boss really won far and square and that they have a mandate to do anything the leftist heart desires. Well it looks like the logs are finally falling in the rod for them. Lets just pray for more hearings like this and that the right changes are made for all our sakes.

Carl (Surfduke) Hewlett

Well, Constellation was doomed from the beginning

I hope all you folks realize this.
When you cancel Programs and yank budgets under a so called emergency. The expectation of receiving additional funds while making deals with an outgoing Congress to bank 15 billion to fund the program in the out years, which is not possible. You get what you give. Not all NASA centers are crying about this in fact. Most are moving on with productive work for the agency.

Sorry for you who supported the constellation effort, now you know how it feels to have your work cancelled overnight.

Get real, this effort is in place to measure the reaction, and your the laughing stock of the scientific/engineering workforce. The plan is to get back to what NASA was, A great agency the USA was proud of.

The NASA workforce is currently very proud of the leaders we have, Keep up hard work Bolden and Garver. This is a much better start then Griffin and Dale with no telling stories and mistruths at hearings as to why programs were cancelled. The sad truth was they could not state "fund constellation". At the very least we now have honest leaders with integrity and science and technology being on the front burner, not a hopeful hot fire rocket engine on a stand in the swamp with a welding machine that works.

Given the flight of Ares 1X what did your expect. I suggest you go read the test flight plan and let us know what objective were not met.

The booster likely had to much fuel so at the cutoff time it kept belching black smoke trailing out the nozzle like the folks that cannot find productive work in NASA these Days.

Best wishes on your future.

"The NASA workforce is currently very proud of the leaders we have, Keep up hard work Bolden and Garver."

Lori that you?

LOL

No I fly a Cessna I do not drive one.

Holdren as well as Garver are excellent examples of why Americans are great examples of integrity and honesty. Bolden is a Marine and will Kill as ordered to support his Country

There is a reason you do not know the plan, It is because you are not included unless you want to be.

Good luck and happy days ahead!

@not confused

Glad you think it is wonderful that 20-30,000 jobs are going to be lost nation wide (not even counting the economic impact on the communities). I am completely unaware of any past cancellations at NASA that killed 20k to 30,000 jobs overnight. Maybe Apollo, not sure what the numbers are on that one.

Holdren lied to the face of Congress when he said all of the center directors knew the plan before it was announced and you call that honesty and integrity? Garver is a hack who is in her position because she was Obama's campaign space policy advisor. Bolden has become a laughing stock in the span of three weeks, as he tries valiantly and fails miserably to spin this non-program. People were cautiously optimistic when Bolden was nominated, but Garver is universally reviled around here and was long before the "plan" was announced.

Two Words:

Burt Rutan

He thinks this plan is pathetic and he was supposed to be one of their poster boys for commercial spaceflight and space tourism. He is the only one who has launched a human into sub orbital space outside of the government.

Have fun squabbling for the pennies that each group will get as they all put forwarrd their pet projects with the words "bold" and "game changing" attached to them.

So if this plan is so wonderful, why was Bolden fighting back tears during the budget announcement and why is the "great communicator" in the white house letting Bolden take body blow after body blow, while the White House says nothing. They say nothing because they thought they were being clever, not talking to anybody in Congress and hiding the budget from the Center Directors and program managers until less than 48 hrs before the announcement. Now their schemes, trickery and lack of a plan are blowing up in their faces. So much for "transparency" in government - what a joke.

"Bolden is a Marine and will Kill as ordered to support his Country"

It appears he's been ordered to kill the NASA Human Spaceflight Program.

"It appears he's been ordered to kill the NASA Human Spaceflight Program."
Hahaha...too funny!

Yep

@ the full loving Cxp Troops

Keep up the good work! NOW@AE and spaceboy

Where you we 5 year ago? Yep. CXP was borne. We all remember it well.
Now the change is slapping your face in truth. You all have fun remembering the past 4 years.

Suck it up. The truth is here!

It's a little self deprecating joke of mine based on this...

http://www.military-patches.com/airforce/pinpix/pi-af-180.jpg

I drive a Corvette actually.
Like the Apollo astronauts.
That went to the moon.
Which is a goal of Constellation.

Goals.

Garver and Obama need to think about that a bit.

CessnaDriver,

I understood your user name and liked it. It immediately reminded me of military pilots. Thanks.

Whoop to do
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/Graphics/Logos/Small/NACA_logo.gif

I ride a bicycle

Sorry if we have no goals for you, think about it soldier!

CxP has ZERO budget! it is like napalm in the morning! LOL

Burt Rutan no fan.

From his recent letter to congress critical of the Obama plan...

"While I usually offer candid remarks at the drop of the hat, I am not
interested in Congressional testimony, since under duress I occasionally
have been known to blurt out the truth. I have no interest in being in
the same room with John Holdren..... Taking a line from a very old play:
"I must turn away, least I soil my hands with the blood of a fool"

Burt Rutan

I will LMAO if the fat lady called Congress comes back, guts this budget, and funds Constellation with say an additional $3-5 Billion and maybe even extends Shuttle a year or two.