WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today announced the witnesses for a Space, Aeronautics, and Related Sciences Subcommittee hearing on Reauthorizing the Vision for Space Exploration. A full list of witnesses is below.

The Subcommittee will consider the issues facing the upcoming reauthorization of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Subcommittee will examine challenges related to the retirement of the Space Shuttle and the transition to the new Orion/Ares system, the impending gap in U.S. human access to space, and the need to ensure a healthy and balanced research program.

Reauthorizing the Vision for Space Exploration
Space, Aeronautics, and Related Sciences Subcommittee 
Date:  Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Time:  9:30 a.m.
Location:  Room 253, Russell Senate Office Building

Witnesses:
Mr. Eugene F. Kranz, Advisory Board Member, Coalition for Space Exploration

Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese, Chairman, National Security Decision Making Department, U.S. Naval War College

Dr. Frederick A. Tarantino, President, Universities Space Research Association

Major General Robert S. Dickman, USAF (Retired), Executive Director, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Mr. George T. Whitesides, Executive Director, National Space Society