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While NASA appears to have shifted the direction of Project Prometheus from nuclear propulsion to nuclear power systems, there are still some, particularly in Congress, who are fighting to maintain the original orientation of the program. In a guest editorial in the July issue of the AIAA magazine Aerospace America, Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) compared […] I couldn’t help but think of that famous phrase (which, ah, knowledgeable readers will recognize as the words of Emil Faber, founder of Faber College of “Animal House” fame) when reading the American Astronomical Society’s policy statement about the Vision for Space Exploration. The statement can be distilled to its first sentence: “The American Astronomical […] Last month the American Academy of Arts and Sciences issued a report titled “United States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities”, written by George Abbey and Neal Lane. The report got a brief mention in the media, and some online debate, but hasn’t yet had any visible effect on overall space policy debates. I did not […] One of the more popular parlor games in Washington these days (well, just about any day) is “Who’s running for President?” Sure, the general election is nearly three and a half years away, but potential candidates are already starting to jockey for position and finding reasons to pay visits to Iowa and New Hampshire. The […] To most, it seemed like the long-running debate of human versus robotic space exploration had been settled some time ago in favor of a mix of both, attempting to take advantage of the benefits of both where reasonable. Yet, there are some people who are trying to rekindle the debate. Thursday’s Christian Science Monitor includes […] The editorial pages of many newspapers have congratulated NASA on the success of the Deep Impact mission. However, they are using the mission in different ways to support their own viewpoints on space policy issues: The Salem (Mass.) News sees Deep Impact as evidence that America “still reigns supreme when it comes to space exploration”. […] There has been a flurry of email activity over the holiday weekend about the long-moribund Office of Space Commercialization (OSC) within the Commerce Department. In the past OSC has been charged with promoting the space industry in the US, and to those ends has published a number of studies, such as one of the earliest […] Last week the Heritage Foundation congratulated Rep. Chris Chocola (R-IN) for introducing an amendment earlier last month to the Science, State, Justice, and Commerce appropriations bill that forbids NASA from spending any money on an “artist-in-residence” program. (See my post on this subject from June 16.) Heritage’s Michael Franc admits that the money saved was […] NASA administrator Michael Griffin has said on a number of occasions that while NASA is looking to reduce the number of shuttle missions to the ISS from the currently-planned 28, in order to retire the shuttle by the end of 2010, he remains committed to completing and utilizing the station. An example is a comment […] |
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