Members of the House Science Committee sought assurances from NASA Sept. 28 that the agency is taking sufficient steps to keep the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle from busting its budget and schedule as so many other large agency programs have in recent years. "NASA has to move ahead with Orion deliberately, but also cautiously, and Congress has to keep a keen and constant eye on the project," House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.) said during the Sept. 28 hearing. "Neither the agency nor the nation can afford another space station — a project that, for all its technical magnificence, has seen its costs balloon while its capabilities shrank to near the vanishing point."
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