On September 15, 2009, the House Committee on Science and Technology held a hearing titled, "Options and Issues for NASA‘s Human Space Flight Program: Report of Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee."

The report from what was commonly known as the Augustine Committee offered options that eventually led to the cancellation of NASA's Constellation program, funding of the commercial crew program, and extending the International Space Station to 2020.

Invited witnesses were:

Mr. Norman R. Augustine
Chair, Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee

Vice Admiral Joseph W. Dyer USN (Ret.)
Chair, Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, NASA

Dr. Michael D. Griffin
Eminent Scholar and Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville


The hearing's web page is online at https://www.nasa.gov/offices/hsf/meet...

The Committee's web site is archived at:

https://www.nasa.gov/offices/hsf/home...