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This week’s print edition of Space News has a couple of interesting articles about some budget problems that some military space programs are facing: The Defense Department has asked Congress for permission to reprogram $102 million of the $271 million that had been appropriated for FY2004 for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), a satellite […] The comments section of a previous post has been taken over by a discussion of an unrelated article on space commercialization that appeared in Wednesday’s issue of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The article reads something like a high school essay, perhaps because it was, apparently, written by a high school student. Alex Dalsey gets credit […] According to a fairly well-informed source, the House Science Committee (most likely just the space subcommittee) plans to hold a hearing next week on NASA’s Centennial Challenges program. No word yet on a specific date and time (although I think we can rule out the 11:30am-2pm time frame on Tuesday) nor on witnesses. It will […] The Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City has a brief article about former senator and astronaut Jake Garn’s role in promoting the Vision for Space Exploration. Garn is heading the relatively little-known organization Global Space Travelers (which the article reveals was founded several years ago by Buzz Aldrin, but has done virtually nothing in […] The AIAA has released updated information about the commercial space forum it is organizing on July 13 on Capitol Hill. They have a document with full details, although I experienced some problems downloading (it appears to be a 1.5 MB one-page Word file). The event is scheduled for 11:30 am to 2:00 pm in Rayburn […] According to a brief article in this week’s print issue of Space News (which you may be able to temporarily read here), Congress has rejected a request by NASA to transfer some FY2004 money to the new Centennial Challenges program. According to the report, NASA had asked permission to transfer $2 million from an unspecified […] I chatted briefly yesterday with George Whitesides, the executive director of the NSS, who told me that about 40 people have signed up to participate in the Moon-Mars Blitz lobbying event in Washington later this month. That number close to the attendance the last year or two for ProSpace’s March Storm events, on which this […] |
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