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Presidential science advisor John Marburger, speaking Thursday morning at the Goddard Memorial Symposium, downplayed any prospects for a new space race between the US and China. “I think it would be a serious mistake to construe the relative activities of China and the US as the beginning of a new space race,” he said in […] NASA administrator Mike Griffin gave the keynote speech yesterday at the Goddard Memorial Symposium, for the third year in the year (“I think you guys need to get a life,” he joked.) His speech had the theme of “The reality of tomorrow”, borrowing from a statement by Robert Goddard: “It is difficult to say what […] A couple of pieces of state legislation related to commercial space have passed milestones in the last several days: In Hawaii, the House approved unanimously Tuesday HB2259, legislation that support work to develop a commercial spaceport in the state. Specifically, the legislation appropriates an unspecified sum to the state’s Office of Aerospace Development “to conduct […] On Monday the Defense Department issued the 2008 edition of “Military Power of the People’s Republic of China”, an annual report that assesses Chinese military capabilities. There’s a brief section titled “Space and Counterspace” that offers a general overview, including a brief discussion of the January 2007 ASAT test and related developments. One sentence of […] On Sunday Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton issued a statement “in support of U.S. aerospace and aviation”. The statement is largely a restatement of her October 2007 science policy and follow-up statements, with additional aviation-specific items. The section of greatest relevance to space policy: Hillary will double NASA’s and FAA’s aeronautics R&D budgets as part […] Today’s Houston Chronicle features an article about the space policy positions of the remaining presidential candidates, including a number of new, albeit minor, details. (Disclosure: I was interviewed for, and quoted in, the article.) Perhaps the biggest is a formal clarification from the Obama campaign that the Illinois senator supports reducing the gap between the […] NPR’s All Things Considered program on Saturday included a segment on how the three remaining major presidential candidates stack up on space. The four-minute report largely covers material previously reported here (NPR was no more successful than anyone else in coaxing more information out of the Obama campaign about his space policy views). One interesting […] |
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