The space subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee is holding a hearing this Thursday morning on “NASA’s International Space Station Program: Status and Issues”. The rather crowded list of witnesses:
- Mr. William Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Ms. Cristina T. Chaplain, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office
- Dr. Edward P. Knipling, Administrator, Agricultural Research Service, Department of Agriculture
- Dr. Cheryl Nickerson, Associate Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
- Mr. Thomas Pickens, III, President and CEO, Spacehab, Inc.
- Dr. Louis Stodieck, Director, BioServe Space Technologies and Aerospace Engineering Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Dr. Jeffrey Sutton, Director, National Space Biomedical Research Institute
A member of congress in a committee meeting in 2001 asked NASA to SHOW, not fund, a path to commerical civilian tourism to the ISS. Nasa has never did this. I wonder if ISS tourism as a commerical venture will be mentioned in this meeting.
With Pickens there, this could prove rather interesting. I wonder if he’ll bring up the things he mentioned at the space venture symposium at last year’s ISDC.
Pickens? He brings nothing but marketing spin.
Pickens is fishing in a dead lake, so to speak:
http://spacecynic.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/slim-pickings/
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I like what Dr. Louis Stodieck had to say, independant board to govern ISS research, and a call for increased commerical up/down launch services.
Some I am sure will remember Anousheh Ansari being billed as the first women in space but that was not really the case but one for her nation instead.
Recently MarsDrive CEO Frank Stratford conducted a wide ranging interview with space traveler Anousheh Ansari.
http://www.marsdrive.com/
First question: When you viewed the Earth from space for the first time can you describe how it made you feel?
Read her take and many others on the MarsDrives main page…..