NASA cancels KSC contract leading to charge “Obama broke law”
Orlando Sentinel
NASA on Friday cancelled its solicitation for the next generation ground services contract for Kennedy Space Center, leading to accusations that President Barack Obama broke the law.
NASA last year put out a bid request for the Exploration Ground Launch Services program, or EGLS (pronounced “eagles”), which was supposed to provide jobs for up to 1,700 workers to prepare rockets and payloads and run all launch operations for Constellation, NASA’s next-generation space-exploration initiative.
But President Obama’s 2011 budget proposal would cancel the Constellation program and its Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule. The decision led NASA to send out a letter Friday to all bidders notifying them that the solicitation was over.
Boeing and other bidders have so far not made any public comment, but one member of Congress, Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, blasted the decision and accused the White House of breaking the law.
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