The President’s Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy (hereafter the “Aldridge commission”) has scheduled its first public hearing for Wednesday, but the commission is already at work. SPACE.com reported Monday that the commission was scheduled to meet Monday somewhere in Virginia for a closed-door meeting. That tidbit came from an interview with Neil Tyson, one of the members of the commission.
In addition, one email correspondent noted an error in the Federal Register notice about Wednesday’s meeting. One of the topics on the agenda reads: “Review of accomplishments of previous commissions, such as Pioneering the Space Frontier (Augustine) and America’s Space Exploration Initiative (Stafford).” The Augustine Commission did not publish “Pioneering the Space Frontier“, which dates back to the mid-1980s: the Augustine Commission completed its report in 1990.
