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A couple of relevant hearings today: The energy and environment subcommittee of the House Science and Technology committee will hold a NPOESS status report hearing at 1 pm this afternoon (note that the hearing is starting an hour earlier than previously announced.) Witnesses include David Powner of the GAO; Brig. Gen. Sue Mashiko, NPOESS program […] Today’s USA Today features an op-ed by John Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy, expressing concern that other countries “are starting to leave us in the dust” in space exploration “while U.S. special interest groups quibble over NASA’s faults.” His argument is that several countries, including China, India, Japan, and Russia, are accelerating their efforts […] An AP article yesterday cites a confidential report sent to the White House last December by scientists concerned that changes in the NPOESS satellite program will limit their ability to monitor climate change. A reduction in the number of satellites, as well as elimination of instruments designed primarily to collect climate data, “places the overall […] Not surprisingly, space policy wasn’t one of the subjects of the Democratic Party presidential debate last night on CNN. However, a little-noticed article in last week’s print edition of Space News sheds a little light on the space policy of New Mexico governor Bill Richardson. According to the article, Richardson met with a group of […] Mark Whittington (an occasional commenter on this blog) has an op-ed in Sunday’s Houston Chronicle advocating an alternative approach to NASA’s robotic lunar exploration plans. Rather than NASA design, develop, and operate a lunar lander mission (something that has been indefinitely delayed in part because of the agency’s overall budget crunch), he argues that NASA […] |
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