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In Sunday’s New York Times featured an op-ed by Robert Park bemoaning NASA’s decision to terminate the Triana mission. (See previous discussion of that decision.) Park argues that the ties the mission had to then-Vice President Al Gore doomed the mission: Scientists had dreamed of such an observatory for years. They hoped Mr. Gore’s influence […] What role can—and should—the US government play in supporting the development of low-cost, responsive space transportation? That is the question tackled in a one-page statement released today that represents the consensus of over two dozen companies and organizations in the industry. The genesis of this document was a one-day meeting held at the request of […] The New Mexico state legislature will convene this week for a brief 30-day session where, among other things, legislators will be asked to support funding for a commercial spaceport in the southern part of the state, with space tourism operator Virgin Galactic as the anchor customer. When the Virgin Galactic agreement was announced last month […] No, there’s no connection between the two (at least for the purposes of this post), but they are both policy-related subjects of articles in this week’s issue of The Space Review. Ryan Zelnio examines the effect stringent satellite export controls have had on US manufacturers; by his estimates these companies have lost several billion dollars […] Today marks the second anniversary of President Bush’s speech at NASA Headquarters, where he formally unveiled the Vision for Space Exploration. This anniversary is a pretty quiet one: NASA administrator Mike Griffin issued a one-paragraph statement Thursday that praised the vision, but only in the most glittering of generalities. The Coalition for Space Exploration also […] I noted here last month that there has been very little controversy surrounding the pending launch of NASA’s New Horizons mission, a spacecraft powered by an RTG. That has changed a little bit, but not significantly, in the last couple of weeks. The most notable development was a protest outside the gates of Cape Canaveral […] A group of Congressmen visiting China report that China has raised the possibility of cooperating with the US in space. According to the AP and Reuters, Chinese officials meeting with the Congressional delegation discussed a proposal to re-engineer the docking system on China’s Shenzhou spacecraft so it is compatible with the ISS and other US […] Try campaigning for Parliament in Canada! That’s what Marc Garneau, the first Canadian in space, is discovering as, among other things, he spends cold mornings greeting train riders (en français) at a station in his riding west of Montreal, the Montreal Gazette reports. The campaign has been a little rough for the first-time candidate (and […] A few other items from Mike Griffin’s speech at the AAS yesterday: The biggest applause generator was a comment made by Griffin early in his address that his love of astronomy and his appreciation of the work done by Hubble and other space telescopes “prompted my decision that NASA will, if at all possible, use […] NASA administrator Mike Griffin introduced a new term to the budgetary lexicon yesterday: “undercosting”. Speaking at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) conference in Washington DC yesterday, Griffin responded to a question about the cost overruns on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) by saying that “I have characterized it as an undercosting.” The remark generated […] |
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