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Who knew that Canada was “a world leader in the militarisation of space”? That’s the claim made by an article on the web side of the New Socialist Group, a Canadian group for those people “who wish to replace global capitalism with a genuinely democratic socialism.” And how is Canada helping to militarize space? Through […] Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle signed legislation Friday that establishes the Wisconsin Aerospace Authority, the first step (maybe) towards the creation of a commercial spaceport in the state. However, as previously noted, the focus of the legislation is creating a vehicle for funneling federal dollars for the creation of a space science education center in Sheboygan. […] Most of the media attention regarding a House Appropriations Committee subcommittee hearing two weeks ago about the NASA budget focused instead on claims by members of the subcommittee that the US was engaged in, and perhaps losing, a new space race with China. The American Institute of Physics published its own summary of the hearing […] The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued a brief analysis of the NASA budget, focusing on the changes in out-year projections for the agency’s budget through the end of the decade. Those projections are significantly lower in the FY07 budget proposal than the one two years ago, which was released immediately after the unveiling […] The Vision for Space Exploration often, and erroneously, gets distilled down to a “manned mission to Mars” in the media. In the political arena, it’s often also used in passing as a rhetorical tool against the administration—something that is not taken seriously. A couple of recent examples: Foreign Policy magazine, in a blog posting, reviews […] One of the key issues that Congress has debated regarding the Vision for Exploration is the gap in manned spaceflight capability between the end of the shuttle program in 2010 and the introduction of the CEV, no later than 2014. Now that efforts to accelerate development of the CEV to shorten that gap seem to […] Louis Friedman, executive director of The Planetary Society, published an essay on the TPS web site earlier this week condemning NASA plans to curtail some of its planned long-term robotic exploration of Mars. Citing a front-page article in last week’s edition of Space News, Friedman wrote, “NASA has not only eliminated work on a sample […] Yesterday’s announcement that NASA will fly an impactor probe to the Moon as a secondary payload on the rocket that will launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was, in some respects, allegorical: NASA’s long-term lunar exploration plans also appear to be on a collision course with technical and budgetary realities. NasaSpaceFlight.com reports that both the CEV […] A few articles of note from this week’s issue of The Space Review: I recap a lot of the hubbub regarding a space race with China, and the comments made last week by Chinese space official Luo Ge in Washington. In particular, I note that while building up a space race with China could yield […] Wednesday marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of Columbia on STS-1, the first shuttle mission. In recognition of that milestone, Congress passed late last week a resolution congratulating NASA for the anniversary. The resolution, H.Con.Res 366, also honors the crew of STS-1, John Young and Robert Crippen, and “commends the men and women of […] |
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