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During his testimony before the Aldridge Commission on Monday afternoon, George Whitesides, the new executive director of the National Space Society, noted that there would be an announcement on Friday about a new coalition of advocacy organizations that will work together to support the new exploration initiative. He didn’t offer any additional details, but it […] An article in Aerospace Daily today (not available online) discusses John Kerry’s views on NASA and the Bush space plan, based primarily on an interview with Jason Furman, the candidate’s economic policy director. Furman told Aerospace Daily that Kerry doesn’t support the new exploration plan “mainly because he thinks it would cost too much.” (The […] To most, the new space exploration initiative announced by President Bush in January is the new national space policy. In fact, a phased review of overall national space policy, started in June 2002, is still ongoing. At the International Policy Seminar, part of the AIAA’s Air and Space Symposium late last month, Brett Alexander of […] Most people in the space industry recognize HR 3752, the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004, as the bill that codifies into law the definitions of suborbital rocket and suborbital trajectory, and ensures vehicles that fall under those definitions are regulated by the FAA’s space transportation division and not its aviation division. (Those definitions […] The space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday afternoon (2:30 pm, Russell 253) on “Space Shuttle and the Future of Space Launch Vehicles.” There are two panels of witnesses scheduled: the first will feature Bill Readdy and Craig Steidle of NASA, while the second includes executives from ATK Thiokol, Lockheed […] An article on the front page of the Washington Post discusses the lack of momentum the new space initiative has in Congress. The article is a good overview of the issues that have been discussed here and elsewhere in the last three-and-a-half months, although there’s not much in the way of new information. The writer, […] |
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