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That’s the prediction of Rep. James Walsh (R-NY), who chairs the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee that deals with VA, HUD, and independent agencies like NASA. That subcommittee is scheduled to meet Tuesday and mark up their FY2005 budget bill. In an article in Monday’s Syracuse Post-Standard, Walsh said that this year’s budget will […] What do Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) have in common? A particularly strong affinity for the shuttle, it appears, based on an essay jointly written by the two published in Sunday’s Florida Today. The essay starts as a fairly generic endorsement of the Vision for Space Exploration, but later on the […] In his keynote speech at the Return to the Moon conference Friday, Paul Spudis, a lunar scientist and one of the members of the Aldridge Commission, made some insightful comments about the relationship of space policy and presidential politics while talking about the reaction to President Bush’s January 14th speech: Basically, he’s gotten a lot […] During an opening address Friday morning at the Return to the Moon 5 conference in Las Vegas, Space Frontier Foundation cofounder Rick Tumlinson mentioned in passing that there may be problems in the Senate for NASA’s Centennial Challenges program: You realize that Centennial Challenges are basically dead right now. Does anybody realize that? It’s kind […] The House Science Committee has issued a press release about the hearing it held yesterday on NASA prizes. Overall the hearing seemed quite positive (I wasn’t present but watched the webcast). The hearing did reveal that issue that prize proponents will have to deal with, beyond issues of how to structure prizes and run competitions, […] There have been a few comments here and here about this week’s Moon-Mars Blitz organized by the Space Exploration Alliance here in DC. I didn’t participate in the event, but I talked Tuesday with several people who did take part, and they were, in general, quite positive about their efforts. I’ve included below a report […] NASA issued a press release Wednesday noting that legislatures in seven states have passed resolutions in support of the Vision for Space Exploration. In three cases—Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi—the resolutions were passed by both houses of their respective legislatures, while in three others—Kansas, Ohio (which was previously noted here), and Texas—only the state senates passed […] That’s the suggestion made in a UPI article by Frank Sietzen published late Monday. He notes that the Apollo 11 crew is scheduled to meet with President Bush on July 21—one day after the 35th anniversary of the historic lunar landing—and that this private meeting might be followed by some kind of public statement by […] A front-page article in today’s Washington Post describes the gaggle of advisors—”a cast literally of thousands”, the article notes—associated with John Kerry’s presidential campaign. With that many people they seem to have found some who have, or at least claim to have, some space expertise: And experts have been enlisted to draft policy memos on […] For whose who missed the discussion about this hearing last week, the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee is holding a hearing Thursday morning about the role prizes and competition can play in space exploration. The lineup of witnesses is slightly different than what was reported last week, with Robert Walker and Douglas Holtz-Eakin (director of […] |
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