Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-VA) passed away on Saturday after a long battle with cancer. Davis was a staunch supporter of aeronautics research in NASA, fighting proposals by the Bush Administration to cut funding for aeronautics research at the agency. As noted in an article over a year ago, she was much more interested in talking about aeronautics than even her own fight against breast cancer: “I’m not against space,” she said in an August 2006 speech. “I just don’t want to see us go to Mars at the expense of everything else.” Her funeral is Thursday, and is the reason why the House hearing on NEO research has been postponed to next month.