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As previously noted, a number of people are growing concerned that the new space initiative might not be able to start on schedule because of the perceived difficulty of getting the NASA budget increase the President called for in FY2005. It looks like even officials within NASA think the planned increase is unlikely. The Huntsville […] Over at the Transterrestrial Musings weblog, Jim McDade comments on whether Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is NASA’s “friend or enemy”. The commentary takes some odd turns, but the gist of his comment is that Kerry does not take NASA very seriously because he lumps it under his “agenda for urban America” on his campaign […] The Mars Society emailed a statement Monday (not available on its web site) claiming that the number of cosponsors for H.Res. 550, a resolution calling for NASA to independently review its decision to cancel the last Hubble servicing mission, had risen to 13. However, the official list of cosponsors, as of midday Tuesday, remained at […] There’s been a frisson of interest in Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio Congressman who is continuing his quixotic quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, based on a press release his campaign issued over the weekend on space policy. In the release Kucinich calls for tripling NASA’s budget, although he is vague regarding how he would spend […] This week features three Congressional hearings by three different committees on various aspects of space policy: At 10am Wednesday the full House Science Committee is scheduled to meet on the topic of “Perspectives on the President’s Vision for Space Exploration.” The committee’s web site doesn’t offer many details about the hearing, but according to SpaceRef.com […] That’s the suggestion of an Orlando Sentinel article, which argues that neither NASA nor the Bush Administration have done much since the initial announcement of the new space initiative in January to curry favor with members of Congress. The lack of specifics on the long-term cost of the initiative (recall the back-and-forth debate at a […] An article by the Scripps Howard News Service on Friday, essentially a grab bag of Washington-related news, offers what at first glance appears to be a scoop about the fate of the Hubble Space Telescope: Don’t expect much from a NASA review of its decision to shutter the Hubble telescope. Astronomers and some politicians want […] On Saturday the Associated Press issued an article regarding criticism of current and proposed Mars exploration efforts. The article starts off by quoting a couple of experts—Amitai Etzioni, a George Washington University sociologist and former White House advisor; and Sylvia Earle, a marine biologst—who appear to be opposed, to some degree, to sending missions, robotic […] An article in Thursday’s issue of the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill mentions the existence of a new organization, the Coalition for Space Exploration, whose intent is to promote the new space initiative. Several major aerospace companies, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin, are members of this group, as well as organizations like the Aerospace Industries […] Part of the AIAA Air and Space Symposium 2004 next month in Washington is a one-day event on April 21 titled the AIAA International Policy Seminar. While the name makes it sound fairly generic, the emphasis of the event will be on space policy, according to the online agenda: Congressman Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the […] |
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