At yesterday’s confirmation hearing, the leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee appeared willing to agree to a request from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and expedite Michael Griffin’s nomination, planning a vote to recommend his nomination later in the day. However, that vote was delayed, the Hampton Roads (Virginia) Daily Press reports, because Sen. George Allen (R-VA) was dissatisfied with Griffin’s answers to his questions during the hearing on aeronautics. Allen asked committee chairman Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) to delay the vote until he received written responses to questions Allen submitted. Griffin apparently submitted those responses Tuesday night, according to the Daily Press, saying “he acknowledged the importance of NASA’s Langley Research Center.” Allen told the paper he found the responses “encouraging” and would not further hold up the vote, which could take place during a full committee markup session scheduled for Thursday.
I couldn’t help but notice that the New York Times made a minor error in its article about the hearing. It’s been corrected, but compare it to this screenshot of the page as it appeared early this morning and see if you notice it…
NASA Watch also noted the mistake.
The mission patch behind O’Keefe is for STS-110, which launched in 2002! Someone at the Times was a bit behind the times.
“NASA Watch also noted the mistake.”
NASA Watch clearly got the info on both that and the Hampton Roads newspaper story from SpacePolitics.com.
William Berger: “NASA Watch also noted the mistake.” NASA Watch clearly got the info on both that and the Hampton Roads newspaper story from SpacePolitics.com.
Sorry pal. News of both items arrived via multiple emails – one series sent at around 4:00 EST this morning – the other around 7:00 am.
Nice try.
Just shows us space freaks are a fringe group. Stupid greedy shortsighted mainstream. I know i’m a bit myopic myself. Just being frustrated at trying to convience my mainstream friends that our survivability depends on space. And if i can’t convience them then i can’t convience anyone. And if the Media, who controlls the mainstreams perceptions can’t get the facts right, it makes my bit of activism that much harder.
Anyone know a good class on spin doctoring so we can make Griffin a household name?
Yeah. Advertising. Make some cool comercials during CSI or American Idol. People love feel good stuff about the US’s future in space (in my experience).
I wrote a spot on it after the National Space Symposium.
Nasa Prime Time
Stupid greedy shortsighted mainstream.
Yup. But the essence of jujitsu is to re-direct or deflect their strength, not confront it. Step 1 – change human nature; Step 2 – enter space; is a losing plan, IMHO.
We need to figure out how to structure things so the mainstream media companies can make money marketing space.
Or leverage them another way, but without spending tax dollars on TV ads which would be like a birthday candle in a media maelstrom anyway.
Mike Griffin vs Tiger Woods in a media contest? Heh! What would the Vegas line be on that?
Or leverage them another way, but without spending tax dollars on TV ads which would be like a birthday candle in a media maelstrom anyway.
Why is spending tax dollars on ads such a big deal? The Army does it. The Air Force does it. As Sam Dinkin states in his Paper When Physics, Economics, and Reality Collide
The Challenge of Cheap Orbital Access at ISU,
you get about $7.5 million [of lobbying] per enrolled bill
Now if lobbying Captial Hill is effective at reducing launch costs for private enterprise (which I imagine it would be), why not lobby the public. What is wrong with NASA spending a few million of the most direct way to reach the average family, TV.