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While Leroy Chiao will be on the ISS for the next six months, he won’t miss out on next month’s election. NASA announced Thursday that Chiao will vote electronically from the station, thanks to a provision passed by the Texas Legislature several years ago. He has even taped a public service announcement encouraging people back […] In a Huntsville Times article Wednesday, Congressman Bud Cramer (D-AL) said opposition to funding the Vision for Space Exploration comes from both sides of the aisle: Cramer said he and other NASA supporters in Congress are pushing to approve the money, but are fighting liberal Democrats who want more money for social programs and conservative […] Since there’s a not a lot of space policy news of late, here’s a recap of a few articles written recently about the Garver-Sietzen debate and related topics. Offering some straightforward reporting about the debate are articles in Aerospace Daily, SPACE.com/Space News, and my own article for The Space Review. (I will note for the […] I attended the debate between the representatives of the Bush and Kerry campaigns this morning on the aerospace platforms of the two candidates. There were no major revelations from the event, as you might expect, but a few interesting items, which I’ll try to summarize below (while finishing my lunch.) Lori Garver, representing the Kerry […] The Citizen, a newspaper that serves the Houston suburbs around the Johnson Space Center, has an article Wednesday about Richard Morrison, the Democrat running against Rep. Tom DeLay in Texas’s 22nd Congressional District. Morrison, speaking to a gathering of aerospace workers, is critical of the lack of funding for the Vision for Space Exploration the […] An article in Sunday’s Orlando Sentinel, a standard description why space has received so little attention in the Presidential campaign to date, does have one interesting tidbit. Jason Furman, Kerry’s economic policy director, suggests that a President Kerry would back some kind of Hubble repair mission: Kerry is supportive of extending the life of the […] The debate between representatives of the Bush and Kerry campaigns on aerospace issue is still scheduled for Thursday morning; as of late Tuesday space was still available to attend but reservations are required by 11 am Wednesday. Since my original post the debate participants have been announced: Frank Sietzen for the Bush campaign and Lori […] One of the concerns about the difficulties recently encountered with HR 3752 (see the previous post as well as an article I wrote for The Space Review for more details) is that the legislation also includes an extension of the current launch indemnification regime that is of great interest to existing launch providers. This system […] That’s the summary of Jim Muncy’s presentation Friday morning at the Space Frontier Conference about the status of HR 3752. According to Muncy, a couple of weeks ago Senate staffers sent proposed changes to the House for HR 3752 and those changes “were an abomination”. The Senate, he felt, had the best of intentions by […] Over at Transterrestrial Musings Rand Simberg has posted a copy of an email going around about a significant—and potentially very detrimental—change to HR 3752 being contemplated by staffers in the Senate. I don’t have any time to comment on this now (I have to catch a flight), but I will note that even if the […] |
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