NASA Leaders Testify on Future of Human Space Exploration

From CSpan.com: NASA Leaders Testify on Future of Human Space Exploration
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other top officials discussed the space agency's broad goals and how they plan to collaborate with the private sector and international community before a Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science and Space.

Now that the space shuttle program has ended NASA is dependent on Russian Soyuz rockets to carry astronauts to the international space station until private contractors take over the job. Meanwhile NASA is developing its own new human spaceflight system.

Subcommittee chairman Bill Nelson (D-FL), himself a former astronaut, heard testimony from Administrator Bolden and the directors of the three main NASA centers tasked with implementation of the new exploration program.

The center directors from Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center, and Marshall Space Flight Center also appeared on the second panel.