May 16 1991
From The Space Library
The media reported that the House Appropriations Subcommittee, by a six to three vote, had agreed to cut all but $100 million of the projected $2 billion Space Station budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1991. The $100 million was to be used to close the project and study two alternative space science projects. (W Post, May 16/91; WSJ, May 16/91; W Times, May 16/91; AP, May 16/91)
UPI reported that workers at Baikonur Cosmodrome had rolled a Soyuz TM-12 rocket into place to take two Soviet cosmonauts and a British woman to the Mir Space Station in a commercial mission. (UPI, May 16/91; AP, May 16/91)
Washington Technology conducted an interview with Representative F. James Sensenbrenner, Republican from Wisconsin and ranking Republican on the House Space Subcommittee. He predicted NASA would face cost-overrun scandals in the coming years because when NASA lacked funds to pay contractors it tended to stretch out project completion. (Washington Technology, May 16/91)
According to Washington Technology, Citizens Against Government Waste had prepared a study indicating that NASA's proposed Earth Observing System was to double in cost to $60 billion but would not be able to meet its technical objectives because its key sensors were not "fundamentally different" from previous sensors. (Washington Technology, May 16/91)
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