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A Huntsville Times article about today’s release of the President’s FY07 budget proposal includes the following: “This year, the White House budget request is likely to be $439 billion for the Pentagon, about $13 billion for military construction, and about $17.9 billion for the NASA budget, the Associated Press has reported.” As noted as recently […] Efforts to win state approval for a New Mexico commercial spaceport took a step forward on Saturday when the state senate approved a measure that allows cities and counties to raise taxes to help pay for the facility. The measure, approved on a 36-2 vote, is intended to cover some of the costs of the […] Most of the debate in the last week regarding “openness” at NASA has focused on claims that the NASA officials have tried to squelch comments by one scientist on climate change issues. However, an article in Saturday’s New York Times expands the focus to other efforts by NASA’s public affairs staff, in particular an effort […] Space News offers a sneak peek at the top-level figures in NASA’s FY07 budget proposal, to be made public on Monday. Overall the agency is getting about a one-percent increase over the final 2006 figure (including hurricane relief monies), to $16.792 billion. That increase, as expected, is spread unevenly: the exploration program will get $3.9 […] The 2006 edition of the March Storm grassroots lobbying blitz is scheduled to begin in just over three weeks (given the timing of this year’s event, “February Blizzard” might be a more apt title.) In the online version of Ad Astra, the NSS magazine, ProSpace president Marc Schlather outlines the key items on this year’s […] White House press secretary Scott McClellan held a “press gaggle” on Air Force One Thursday morning as the President was travelling to Minnesota. A guest of the informal press briefing was presidential science advisor John Marburger, who was there to answer questions about the science initiatives unveiled in the State of the Union address. An […] To no one’s surprise, President Bush’s State of the Union address Tuesday night made no mention of the Vision for Space Exploration or space policy in general. The closest he came was this promise to double federal funding of “basic research” efforts: First, I propose to double the federal commitment to the most critical basic […] Most of the attention to Boeing’s 2005 financial results released yesterday focused on the boffo results of its commercial airliner business. Still, one financial analyst thought to ask Boeing executives about the status of the United Launch Alliance, and got this response from Boeing CFO James Bell, according to this transcript provided by the Wall […] A Florida Today article today goes over expectations regarding the FY07 NASA budget proposal, including plans not to cut the number of remaining shuttle flights. One reason forwarded for retaining the scheduled 19 or so shuttle flights is allow the shuttle to launch key modules provided by ISS partners Europe and Japan. One member of […] |
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