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Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), the chair of the House Science Committee, delivered a speech Monday at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. While most of the speech focused on the physics research performed there, he did have a few things to say about NASA, primarily funding for the new exploration initiative and the competition for […] The space and aeronautics subcommittee of the House Science Committee has scheduled a hearing this Thursday at 1pm to discuss “NASA-Department of Defense Cooperation in Space Transportation”. According to SpaceRef, the list of witnesses includes John Schumacher (NASA Chief of Staff), “Dr. Johnson-Freese” (probably Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor at the Naval War College who has […] Over at The Space Review I have an article about a talk on Saturday by Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of the members of the President’s Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond (aka the Aldridge Commission). Tyson offered several interesting tidbits about the commission and its work, and he hinted that he also played a small […] A couple of, well, curious articles appeared online Sunday regarding space policy. One, in a publication called Dollars & Sense (“The Magazine of Economic Justice”), features an interview with anti-nuclear activist Bruce Gagnon. Gagnon, one of the most visible opponents of space nuclear power, says a number of things that are at least a little […] The National Space Society emailed a “legislative alert” to its members on Friday, calling on them to contact their Congressional representatives to urge them to support the new space initiative. Here’s a key paragraph from the message: The new human space exploration initiative has run into serious opposition in Congress. Many Senators and Congressmen are […] The full Senate has restored $600 million in funding to NASA’s proposed FY2005 budget. The six senators who represent Alabama (Sessions and Shelby), Florida (Graham and Nelson), and Texas (Cornyn and Hutchison) introduced an amendment during floor debate on S. Con. Res. 95 to “provide full funding for NASA’s FY 2005 space exploration initiatives”. The […] A few tidbits this week about Hubble and yesterday’s Senate hearing that focused in part on the SM4 cancellation decision: NASA has finally published a detailed white paper outlining the reasons behind the cancellation decision. It also notes that the agency is “aggressively investigating innovative ways” to extend the life of Hubble without a shuttle […] While space policy in the US this week has been dominated by Hubble and the new exploration initiative, there have been some significant changes within the Russian space agency. On Tuesday, as part of a larger government reorganization, the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, or Rosaviakosmos, was renamed the Federal Space Agency, according to Itar-Tass. […] The office of Senator Mikulski has posted a copy of the letter from Admiral Gehman to Mikulski offering his review of NASA’s decision to cancel the SM4 Hubble servicing mission. (Although O’Keefe said he had requested Gehman carry out the review, the report was actually delivered directly to Mikulski, and not to NASA.) The gist […] The Mars Society (which, for rather unclear reasons, has been leading the push to save Hubble), sent out a statement yesterday claiming that the number of cosponsors for H. Res. 550, the resolution calling on NASA to review the SM4 cancellation decision, had grown to 21. However, the official list of cosponsors remains at the […] |
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