When NASA space flight chief Bill Readdy told a Senate subcommittee last year that relying on expendable rockets to assemble and resupply the international space station would take longer and cost more than using the space shuttle, the subcommittee’s chairman said he did not believe NASA had done enough homework to rule out alternative approaches.
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