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Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) said Tuesday that he wanted to shorten the gap between the shuttle and Constellation, but not by extending the life of the shuttle. Speaking at a luncheon on the Space Coast on Tuesday, Martinez said he wanted to minimize that gap so the US won’t have to “rely on Vladimir Putin […] For a pair of late January debates, one Republican and one Democratic, Politico.com is not only soliciting questions, but allowing people to vote on their favorites. Space is doing remarkably well as of early Tuesday morning: for the Democrats a question about the candidates’ support for the Vision for Space Exploration (filed under the category […] Today marks the fourth anniversary of the formal unveiling of the Vision for Space Exploration in a speech by President Bush at NASA Headquarters. In an article in this week’s issue of The Space Review, I discuss that we’re entering a critical year for the Vision, not just because of the uncertainty about who will […] SpaceRef has posted “Barack Obama’s Plan For American Leadership in Space”, a document detailing the Democratic presidential candidate’s stand on space policy. (The document does not appear to be posted yet on Obama’s official campaign web site.) The document largely is an elaboration of a previous, brief statement from the campaign. Obama supports development of […] In his speech Thursday, Griffin said that with “the budgetary resources currently projected during the critical development years of 2009 and 2010, we can reasonably forecast the Orion and Ares systems coming online by early 2015.” Griffin isn’t happy with that timeline, but said that “it would be far worse if I were to over-promise […] In a speech Thursday at the annual conference of the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas, NASA administrator Mike Griffin made a couple of resolutions for 2008. One is to ensure that Constellation remains on track in 2008 as the development of the Ares 1 launch vehicle and Orion spacecraft enter critical phases. […] Contrary to some reports, Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani did make it to Florida’s Space Coast on Wednesday. However, a bomb threat at one of Giuliani’s planned stops truncated his schedule, leading to the cancellation of a meeting with the Florida Today editorial board that offered one of the best chances to date for the […] NASA administrator Mike Griffin and the astronomical community have not had the best of relationships since Griffin became administrator nearly three years ago: astronomers are upset at budget cutbacks in various missions and research programs, while Griffin argues that such programs get plenty of funding and the real problem has been programs with unrealistic budgets […] While it’s largely of academic interest only, Dennis Kucinich has reiterated his desire to have NASA focus on alternative energy research in an interview with the technology blog TechCrunch: National Aeronautical [sic] Space Administration has always been involved as an incubator of technology. I want to task NASA with moving particularly in the area of […] |
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