Comments on: House hearing on the ISS

By: SpaceNutNewMars

SpaceNutNewMars — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:29:47 +0000

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…..

By: Vladislaw

Vladislaw — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:01:49 +0000

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.

By: Space Politics » Soyuz and Congress

Space Politics » Soyuz and Congress — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:07:20 +0000

[…] noted here earlier, the space subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee is holding a hearing on the ISS…. While it’s not specifically mentioned in the hearing charter, one would expect that […]

By: Shubber Ali

Shubber Ali — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:36:33 +0000

Pickens is fishing in a dead lake, so to speak:

http://spacecynic.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/slim-pickings/

By: GM

GM — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:49:56 +0000

Pickens? He brings nothing but marketing spin.

By: Ferris Valyn

Ferris Valyn — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:18:48 +0000

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.

By: Vladislaw

Vladislaw — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:46:10 +0000

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.