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Recent news accounts suggest a tone of cautious optimism about the fate of NASA’s FY2005 budget, as Congress reconvenes today for a brief lame-duck session. CongressDailyPM reported late Monday that while a budget cut of 0.75 percent is in the works for non-defense, non-homeland security agencies, NASA may be exempt from this cut and instead […] That’s the title of a presentation Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill by Peter Diamandis, president of the X Prize Foundation. The talk and luncheon is scheduled for 11 am in 2318 Rayburn House Office Building, and is sponsored by AIAA, ASME, IEEE-USA, and the Congressional Research and Development Caucus. As part of my continuing shameless self-promotion, let me point out a few space policy articles of interest in this week’s issue of The Space Review: Douglas Jobes discusses Rohrabacher’s space prizes act, HR 5336, and whether Congress is really serious about such legislation; Last Friday at the SpaceVision2004 conference at MIT, Lori Garver talked […] An article by CongressDailyPM, published on GovExec.com, discusses the negotiations on an omnibus FY 2005 budget bill that would include funding for NASA. The article notes that the Bush Administration “was likely to receive close to its full requests” for NASA funding, after the House cut $1.1 billion from the proposed budget. The article doesn’t […] A correspondent pointed out to me earlier this week an interesting piece of legislation. HR 5336, the Space and Aeronautics Prize Act, was introduced by Rep Rohrabacher last month, just before Congress adjourned for the election. The bill calls for a “National Endowment for Space and Aeronautics” that would run prize competitions “that have the […] During a press briefing with White House press secretary Scott McClellan, a reporter (not identified by McClellan other than as “Greg”) surprisingly asked about the status of the Vision for Space Exploration, and whether it was, in the reporter’s words, “on the back burner”. McClellan’s response: It’s reflected in our budget and I think it […] A few recent articles of note about space policy and last week’s election: A Huntsville Times article Sunday argues that the Vision for Space Exploration will move ahead with President Bush’s reelection, with one local person, NASA Advisory Committee member Mark McDaniel, saying “People throughout NASA have been waiting on this election to start work.” […] With the 2004 election now behind us (sooner than I had imagined—or feared), Florida Today examined what Bush’s reelection and the Republicans’ hold on Congress meant for space policy. According to those interviewed, the election gives NASA an opportunity to solidify the Vision for Space Exploration through CEV development, an initial lunar robotic mission, and […] An Aviation Daily article Thursday notes (near the end) that there are some changes in store for the Senate Commerce Committee. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the current chairman, is leaving and will be replaced by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK). That could result in changes in who chairs the subcommittees, although there was nothing in the […] Another Congressman with space ties who won reelection last night is Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA). Calvert told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that he hopes to take over from Rep. Dana Rohrabacher as chairman of the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee, saying that such a job “would be an extraordinary challenge.” |
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