"His statement about SLS, I think, and I cannot speak for Dr. "He is an incredible human being." However, Bolden added that Kraft's criticisms were premised on misinformation. The administrator's response began by praising Kraft as a role model and a mentor. "He was my center director when I was first became an astronaut and went to the Johnson Space Center," Bolden said while showing emotion. Some, like Kraft, have argued that NASA should cede rocket-building to private companies like the United Launch Alliance and SpaceX, which have demonstrated an ability to do so safely and at a lower cost.Īfter summarizing this idea, Honda asked Bolden, "How do you respond to these sorts of concerns about the Space Launch System, and what is NASA doing to work with industry and government partners to develop a spectrum of missions beyond EM-1 and EM-2 to fully utilize this enormous national asset?" He and a number of Apollo engineers are concerned that NASA can't afford to fly the expensive rocket more than once every other year and that a lack of missions will have dangerous consequences for the rocket's reliability. Kraft, the agency's original flight director, and the man for whom NASA's mission control is named, is skeptical of the plan to build a very large rocket with a similar capability to the Saturn V used by Apollo program. The question referred to comments Chris Kraft made a few years ago in an interview with the Houston Chronicle, in which he said that the operating costs of NASA's large Space Launch System rocket "will eat NASA alive." Mike Honda (D-Calif.) asked NASA Administrator Charles Bolden an interesting question. Further Reading First engine to power SLS rocket roars to life on Mississippi test standIt was nearing the end of a two-hour Appropriations subcommittee hearing in the US House of Representatives when Rep.
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