Probably the most important Congressional hearing scheduled this week with space policy relevance is a hearing Thursday morning by the House Appropriations Committee’s Science, State, Justice, and Commerce subcommittee on NASA’s FY07 budget request. Mike Griffin is scheduled to testify at the 10am hearing in room H-309 of the Capitol. Two House Science Committee hearings are scheduled, but with only tangential links to space policy: the space and aeronautics subcommittee will tackle the future of air traffic control with a witness less that includes NASA aeronautics associate administrator Lisa Porter, while deputy administrator Shana Dale will be one of several witnesses at a full committee hearing Thursday on K-12 math and science education.
Off the Hill, this week the NASA Astrobiology Institute is holding its annual conference at the Ronald Reagan Building downtown. The agenda includes a “NASA Town Hall Meeting” Monday night; that should prove interesting, to say the very least, given the agency’s plans to slash funding for astrobiology.
And no, there are no Space Transportation Association breakfasts scheduled for this week. At least, none that I’m aware of.
