Lamar Smith: “For the last eight years, Congress has defended the Space Launch System and Orion crew vehicle from attempts at…”

If space exploration is going to continue to earn the public's support, then contractors will have to deliver on time and on budget.

With clear Congressional direction, strong White House leadership, and NASA's tremendous expertise, we have all the resources available to make significant progress in human space exploration.

It is truly staggering to behold how this space telescope's cost and schedule projections went from costing the same as a space shuttle mission--around half-a-billion dollars with an original launch date in 2007--to now becoming an…

Now that the Independent Review Board has completed its work, we should review the decades-long JWST cost overruns and schedule delays.