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While the space advocacy community is talking to Congress about the FY07 NASA budget proposal, the tone of their messages is very different. The Planetary Society issued a “Take Action Alert” Tuesday, calling on its members and other interested people to contact the House Science Committee to express their opposition to cuts in science programs, […] A scandal appears to be brewing within the Canadian Space Agency that could cost the new head of the agency his job. The Canadian Press reported over the weekend that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) plans to start an investigation into reports that C$7.3 million in CSA contracts have never been accounted for. The […] That’s a topic I try to tack in an article in The Space Review this week. The genesis of this article came from a number of events, from the release of the NASA budget last week to editorials last month (some of which should be familiar to regular readers of this blog) about the relative […] That the question asked by an Orlando Sentinel article Sunday that compiles a considerable amount in evidence to suggest the answer is “yes”. In addition to the recent controversy involving media access to climate researcher James Hansen, Michael Cabbage identifies a number of other events, from campaign appearances by former administrator Sean O’Keefe to the […] I was a bit surprised late last week to see an AP article that quoted Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta as saying that he expected commercial space tourism to commence from the US by 2008. Not because Mineta didn’t say it—I was in the room at the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Conference Thursday morning when he […] A lot of attention in the week since the release of NASA’s FY2007 budget proposal as been on cuts to NASA’s science programs. Two efforts that have attracted a lot of attention have been the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and a Europa orbiter. The former has been “deferred indefinitely”, while NASA did not include a […] One of the major programs announced both at the President’s State of the Union address and with the release of the FY07 budget proposal last week was something called the American Competitiveness Initiative, which is designed, according to an OMB fact sheet, “to double funding for high-leverage research emphasizing the physical sciences that will provide […] Some members of the planetary science community are upset about both NASA’s FY07 budget proposal as well as the agency’s FY06 operating plan, which explains how NASA plans tweak its FY06 appropriation. The argument made by Mark Sykes, director of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, is that NASA is cutting solar system research programs […] One of the arguments made a little over a year ago as part of the reorganization of Congressional appropriations subcommittees was that by moving NASA out of the same subcommittee as the VA and HUD departments was that the space agency would no longer compete with veterans’ and housing programs for funding. That seemed to […] The AP reports that the New Mexico House has passed legislation that allows localities to create taxes that could be used to help finance the planned commercial spaceport in the southern part of the state. The measure, which passed on a 42-14 vote, is identical to a measure the state Senate passed Saturday. The AP […] |
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