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Wednesday’s House Science Committee hearing about the options for Hubble was rather interesting: there was no consensus among the members regarding whether and how Hubble should be serviced. Moreover, there was a fair amount of sparring among the witnesses regarding the viability of some options; it was all polite, but they made it clear when […] Reader John Malkin points out that NASA’s Office of Legislative Affairs has updated its list of upcoming hearings, which will focus on the FY2006 budget proposal and the future of the Hubble Space Telescope. The House Science Committee has planned a “FY06 Posture Hearing” about the NASA budget on February 17, while the Senate Commerce […] The House Science Committee announced this week that, as expected, Ken Calvert (R-CA) will be the new chairman of the Space and Aeronautics subcommittee. Calvert replaces Dana Rohrabacher, who had to step down because of term limits. The Democrats have yet to name a ranking minority member of the subcommittee; Nick Lampson, who previously held […] While the House is grappling with a potential reorganization of appropriations subcommittees, the Senate Commerce Committee has quietly completed a reorganization of its own. Of note is that the former “Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space” is now the “Subcommittee on Science and Space”; technology gets its own subcommittee where it is coupled with “innovation […] Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) announced Tuesday that she has introduced legislation to establish memorials to the shuttle Columbia tragedy in four Texas towns. The memorials would be part of the National Park System, and the Secretary of the Interior would have the option to select additional memorial sites if desired. Hutchison introduced similar legislation […] The latest news from the rumor mill: NASA will include no funding for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) mission in its FY2006 budget proposal, effectively killing the program. For those who are following the mission (which in recent months was quietly renamed Prometheus 1), this should not be much of a surprise: there has […] Late Monday NASA announced its plans for a press conference on February 7 to unveil its proposed FY2006 budget. (I have heard rumors that NASA may try to move up the release of its budget to as early as Thursday to avoid linking it to O’Keefe’s planned departure, but that would be highly unusual: the […] |
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