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On Tuesday June 14 the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee has scheduled a hearing titled “Live from Space: The International Space Station”. The three witnesses are all astronauts with ISS experience: Michael Fincke, Peggy Whitson, and John Phillips. Of course, Phillips is actually on ISS right now; as the schedule notes, he will be “testifying […] A reader with some insight into the development of the report by the House Appropriations Committee on the Science, State, Justice and Commerce appropriations bill passed along an interesting provision that has a “95% chance” of making it into the final report: NASA’s mission to research, investigate, and explore the limits of aeronautics and the […] Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) is urging NASA and the federal government to consider the threat of an impact by a near Earth object (NEO). The Long Beach (CA) Press-Telegram reports that Rohrabacher will make “direct appeals” to NASA administrator Michael Griffin and other officials this week to urge them “to take seriously the threat of […] Today’s issue of the Washington Examiner (a free daily newspaper in the DC area) features a pair of op-eds that are at least mildly critical of the Vision for Space Exploration. In “2005: A Space Odious”, Charles Schultze, a senior fellow emeritus at the Brookings Institute, sounds off about the relative ineffectiveness of manned spaceflight […] The Florida Legislature last month did not pass a bill this year that would have created a state space commission—legislators killed the bill because of unrelated amendments—but that’s not going to stop Governor Jeb Bush. According to Florida Today, Bush will establish the commission anyway through an executive order, most likely during a board meeting […] It’s not quite “the best of times, the worst of times”, but it was clear yesterday that civil space fared better than military space in the eyes of Congressional appropriators. The House Appropriations Committee signed off on a $16.5-billion budget for NASA, making no apparent changes to what the Science, State, Justice, and Commerce subcommittee […] In a statement issued today, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is calling on the administration and Congress to increase funding for NASA’s earth and space science programs. The AGU believes that funding requirements for shuttle return to flight, ISS assembly, and “launching the Moon-Mars initiative” are forcing NASA “to do more than it can with […] Some astronomers have speculated that the universe will end in a “big crunch” as it collapses back onto itself, a conclusion that has fallen out of favor as evidence grows that the expansion of the universe will continue to accelerate. However, NASA’s budget expansion will not accelerate, and as a result the agency’s astronomy programs […] Last week’s report that NASA’s Voyager 1 was approaching the outer frontier of the solar system got the attention of newspaper editorial writers: not because of their heartfelt interest in space science, but because of reports that Voyager 1 and other spacecraft were threatened with termination as a budget-saving measure. Condemnation of the proposal came […] One of the major events during last month’s International Space Development Conference in Washington was a presentation by former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart about a potential impact hazard posed by 2004 MN4, a near Earth object (NEO). (I have a detailed summary of his presentation, and responses from a couple other experts who also spoke […] |
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