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Presidential science advisor John Marburger appeared before the science, state, justice, and commerce subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee last week to discuss the proposed overall FY2007 science and technology budget. According to a summary of the hearing provided by the American Institute of Physics, the topic of the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) and NASA’s […] The University of California Berkeley issued a press release this week where several of the university’s scientists argued that planned cutbacks in NASA’s science budget would be detrimental not only to their research programs, but to the nation in general. One scientist quoted in the release, Robert Lin, tried to make it clear he wasn’t […] Checking in on Mr. Lasker You might recall a little over a month ago John Lasker wrote an article for Wired News about space weaponization. That generated a lot of controversy for its skewed portrayal of ProSpace, the grassroots space lobbying group, prompting a strong rebuttal from ProSpace and an eventual correction from Wired News, […] The House Appropriations Committee’s Science, State, Justice, and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing Thursday afternoon to take testimony from members of Congress. (Or, at least, that’s the gist from a barebones hearing description on the committee’s web site.) One of those providing testimony was House Science Committee chairman Sherwood Boehlert. In his opening statement, he […] Congressman Tom DeLay’s resignation announcement came at the same time than many of the movers and shakers in the space community were in Colorado Springs for the Space Foundation’s annual National Space Symposium. According to a SPACE.com article, those in attendance heaped praise on DeLay, even those from the other side of the aisle. Take […] The Senate Appropriations Committee approved an FY06 supplemental appropriations bill this week for hurricane relief and military operations. Included in the bill is $35 million for repairs to NASA’s Stennis Space Center, according to an article yesterday in Aerospace Daily. The funding is notable since the Bush Administration had not requested any funding for Stennis […] The Space Foundation issued a white paper Tuesday on the health of the nation’s space industrial base, with a particular focus on “sub-prime contractors”, those companies that perform work for the big aerospace companies. While recent studies have shown that the aerospace industry in general is in good shape, the Space Foundation paper notes that […] DeLay’s resignation announcement came less than a week after he issued a press release and participated in a House Appropriations Committee subcommittee hearing, warning that the US was engaged in a “space race” with China. As DeLay put it in his press release, “The advanced state of the Chinese space program represents a 21st century […] You want a sure way to wake up in the morning, no caffeine required? Turn on the news and hear that Tom DeLay will resign from Congress by the end of May. The news first broke Monday night with interviews with Time and the Galveston Daily News; a formal announcement will be made today. DeLay […] In this week’s issue of The Space Review, Taylor Dinerman takes The American Spectator to task for lumping NASA’s exploration vision in the same category as large federal programs like farm subsidies and Medicare prescription drug plans. (The article that Dinerman refers, which apparently only refers to NASA in passing, to doesn’t appear to be […] |
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