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Compare and contrast: first, an op-ed in Wednesday’s Orlando Sentinel by Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Barbara Mikulski, who put forward a standard set of arguments (we can’t trust the Russians, the Chinese are coming, etc.) to press for more money for NASA: However, once the international space station is complete, the U.S. will have […] At the end of an interview with CBS News’ Bill Harwood, NASA administrator made some interesting comments regarding recent criticism of the Ares 1 launch vehicle, such as the potential thrust oscillation problem with the vehicle’s first stage: Q: On a different topic, the Ares rocket and the Constellation program continue to generate questions among […] Last week I looked at whether the various Republican presidential candidates’ space-related campaigning had any effect on the outcome of the primary in Brevard County, Florida, the “Space Coast”. The answer appeared to be no: the results in Brevard were essentially identical to the statewide results, with no bump for candidates like Rudy Giuliani who […] Now that the administration has released its FY 2009 budget proposal, Congress is gearing up for hearings on that budget, including some devoted to the NASA budget. The House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on February 13th at 10 am devoted to the NASa budget request, with NASA administrator Mike Griffin the […] Tuesday morning the Space Transportation Association (STA) hosted a breakfast featuring what it billed as something of a debate between Lori Garver and Jim Muncy on the various presidential candidates’ stances on space policy. In reality, the event was more of a discussion of the candidates’ views on space than a debate, although there was […] The reaction to the proposed FY 2009 NASA budget has been decided muted: few people seem terribly excited about the budget, but then, few people are terribly outraged about the budget as well. After taking into account the accounting shift that moves management and operations expenses into the Cross-Agency Support account, there are few radical […] Later this week the Air Force Academy’s Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies will be holding its annual National Space Forum in Washington, with this year’s topic being: “Space Challenges Facing the New American Administration of 2009″. In this week’s issue of The Space Review, Mike Snead offers some suggestions for discussions during the […] The White House has posted this morning the overall FY2009 budget proposal, including an overview of the NASA budget. The administration is requesting over $17.6 billion for NASA in FY09, up from the $17.3 billion the agency got for the current fiscal year. The summary has only a few details about the budget, calling out […] In this week’s issue of The Space Review I report on Mike Griffin’s defense of the current exploration architecture that he made in a speech last month. This is an expanded version of a post here on the speech, with a review of the logic that NASA followed under Griffin that led to the current […] Yesterday two of the best-known sons of tiny Hope, Arkansas—former president Bill Clinton and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee—were on the campaign trail in Huntsville, Alabama: Clinton in support of his wife’s bid for the Democratic nomination and Huckabee in his own pursuit of the Republican nomination. Huntsville is one of the few communities in […] |
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