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Bloomberg News reported late yesterday that the Bush Administration’s proposed FY2007 budget “would carve savings from programs such as Medicare, NASA and agriculture.” The article quotes Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, who believes that any budget increases are “going to be below the rate of inflation” for everything other than […] A couple articles of note from Monday’s issue of The Space Review: Grant Bonin completes his examination of the use of medium-lift vehicles instead of a heavy-lift launcher to carry out the Vision for Space Exploration. Part two looks at cost and reliability issues associated with large versus smaller vehicles. Also, Ryan Zelnio offers a […] ProSpace has opened registration for March Storm 2006, its annual Congressional lobbying blitz. This year’s event is scheduled for February 27 through March 1 (Monday through Wednesday), with training on Sunday the 26th. The agenda for this year’s March Storm has yet to be announced, although it will likely bear some similarities to last year’s […] The big political news from over the weekend was the announcement by Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) that he would no longer seek to regain his former post of House Majority Leader. Given that DeLay was arguably NASA’s most powerful patron on Capitol Hill, this decision—and his ongoing legal troubles—raises the question of just how much […] The Wall Street Journal [subscription required] reported Saturday that the Pentagon has decided to give its seal of approval to the United Launch Alliance, the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture that would merge the EELV operations of the two companies. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) still has to sign off on the merger, a process that […] Last week the FAA released a Notice for Proposed Rulemaking for commercial space flight passengers and crew and opened a docket for comments on that NPRM. (Go to this web site and search for docket 23449). As of this morning four comments were available for viewing: Brian F. Ficke expresses concern that the NPRM does […] Remember Triana, aka “Goresat”, the earth and space sciences satellite dreamed up (arguably literally) by then Vice President Al Gore about eight years ago? Science reports in its latest issue that NASA has “quietly terminated” the mission. Unfortunately, that’s all that the free summary provides, and I don’t have a subscription. As you may recall, […] An AP article from earlier this week discusses an analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on federal R&D funding. The study finds that while overall federal R&D spending will increase 2.2 percent in 2006 to $135 billion, 97 percent of that increase will go to the Defense Department and NASA; […] The Federation of American Scientists has posted a copy of the memo from OSTP director John Marburger from late last month that authorized NASA to develop a free-flyer Landsat spacecraft in place of including a Landsat-type instrument on the NPOESS spacecraft. Most of the details of the decision in the two-page memo were covered in […] It’s tough to find critics of NASA’s robotic planetary exploration program, particularly now given the spectacular successes of the Mars rovers, Cassini, and other missions. But then there’s curmudgeonly commentator Les Kinsolving, a talk radio host and columnist for the right-of-center online publication WorldNetDaily. In a column today he lambasts NASA for the New Horizons […] |
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