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This week’s print edition of Space News (not available online) has a couple of interesting quotes from members of Congress about funding for the exploration program versus other projects both within and outside of NASA. Rep. John Larson (D-CT), member of the House Aerospace Caucus, had this to say about NASA’s support of exploration versus […] The release of the final report of the President’s Commission on Moon, Mars, and Beyond has been rescheduled for noon EDT on Wednesday, June 16, at the same location on the GWU campus. This means the press conference will take place during the middle of the second day of the Centennial Challenges workshop up the […] NASA announced Tuesday afternoon that administrator Sean O’Keefe will be the luncheon speaker Wednesday at a meeting of the US Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors in Washington. According to the press release: O’Keefe will present the administration’s Vision for Space Exploration (VSE). The VSE will accelerate advances in robotics, autonomous and fault tolerant systems, […] NPR’s Morning Edition had a segment Monday about the status of the Vision for Space Exploration, focusing on the lackluster support it seems to have garnered to date. There’s not much new in the report, and much of it was based on interviews and testimony from the Aldridge Commission’s final public hearing a month ago […] An acquaintance pointed out at dinner last night that the public release of the Aldridge Commission’s final report will take place as preparations for the late President Reagan’s funeral approach their climax, and thus is in danger of being ignored. The day of the release and press conference, Thursday, is the same day Reagan’s body […] The Houston Chronicle and UPI both report that several members of the House of Representatives, including House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, spoke on the House floor Thursday to support the Vision for Space Exploration. SpaceRef has a transcript of the comments made by DeLay and others, taken from the Congressional Record; you can also get […] The President’s Commission on Moon, Mars, and Beyond (better known as the Aldridge Commission) will release its final report on the implementation of the Vision for Space Exploration on June 10. A press conference is scheduled for 11 am EDT at George Washington University in DC; the release will be published online at the same […] An article in Thursday’s edition of the newspaper Newsday discusses the slow progress the Vision for Space Exploration has made in Congress since its introduction in mid-January. There’s not much in the article that has not been discussed elsewhere, but it’s a good overview of the status of the vision to date. Both Craig Steidle […] UPI reported Wednesday that the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has issued a study on the costs of sending humans back to the Moon under the new Vision for Space Exploration plan. (The article suggests that the report is not widely available and that the wire service somehow managed to obtain a copy, but in fact […] The AIAA’s Public Policy group is planning a forum to discuss commercial space policy issues. The event is scheduled for July 13 in room 2525 of the Rayburn House Office Building; no time is mentioned for the event just yet. The group’s calendar of events lists the forum but offers no other details, but according […] |
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