Howard Dean and Martians

Even Martians are curious about the electability of Howard Dean…

Priorities, priorities

You would expect that the news of a new space policy that could include human missions to the Moon and/or Mars would be big news. Indeed, it was on the front page of today’s Washington Post newspaper. However, as you can see, it had to compete with some other, more important news to most Washington-area […]

White House still keeping mum

Despite the flurry of publicity regarding the latest reports that the President will announce a new major space policy next week, the White House is not officially offering specific details. Press Secretary Scott McClellan was quoted by the New York Times (among others) as saying: “The president directed his administration to do a comprehensive review […]

Big (and I mean big) policy news

According to reports initially published by Reuters and UPI, President Bush will make a major space policy announcement next week that will commit the nation to resuming human exploration of the Moon. (For the full details, read those articles, or get a one-paragraph summary I wrote for spacetoday.net.) If this is correct (and that remains […]

Hall crosses aisle, Gordon takes top Dem spot on Sci Cmte

Late last week Rep. Ralph Hall, a veteran Congressman from Texas, announced that he was switching from the Democratic to the Republican party. (Hall claimed that he made the switch because Republicans had “zeroed out” his district’s appropriations in the budget, although more cynical people note that Republican redistricting in Texas would have made it […]

White House keeps mum on new space policy

The White House is offering no updates on the status of its space policy overhaul. In a press briefing Tuesday, Press Secretary Scott McClellan said, “The President is strongly committed to the exploration of space.” However, when asked how the review was going, McClellan would only say “The review has been moving forward, and I […]