Comments on: Additional tidbits in the authorization bill http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Space Politics » Science committee to take up NASA authorization bill next week http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-49665 Wed, 28 May 2008 09:43:38 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-49665 […] The full House Science and Technology Committee has scheduled a markup of HR 6063, the NASA authorization bill for FY 2009, for Wednesday, June 4, at 10 am. The space subcommittee approved the bill without changes in a brief markup session last week. […]

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]]> By: Ray http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-48468 Wed, 21 May 2008 23:24:45 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-48468 Donald: I guess your priorities are similar to mine, although I’m sure you’re arriving at them from a different direction.

Greg: By the way, it will be cool to see how that video contest you described on the Space Show goes.

It seems that’s the case about prize reporting and funding. It does have some wording encouraging the use of prizes. I’m not sure if that means NASA has the choice to implement some other goal via prizes though. Some other Congressional bills in recent years explicitly ruled out funding more Centennial Challenges. I don’t see any specific prize line item or prohibition in this one.

The House Authorization Cross-Agency Support Programs amount is $3,299,900,000, which is exactly what the Administration is asking for for that area, so maybe it should be interpreted to be the same as the Administration request except as called out specifically? I don’t know if that’s how these things work. I suspect the Appropriations bill will say definitively one way or the other. Anyway, Centennial Challenges is in Cross-Agency Support Programs, and the Administration request is $4M for 2009 for Centenial Challenges, which still would make the $10M to $50M reporting change a moot point.

I have some links to the text and related items here:

spaceprizes.blogspot.com/2008/05/nasa-authorization-act-of-2008.html

]]> By: Me http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-48447 Wed, 21 May 2008 19:46:23 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-48447 gm, quit polluting these forums with your untrue and incorrect remarks.

]]> By: Greg Zsidisin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-48429 Wed, 21 May 2008 17:30:57 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-48429 So this authorization bill changes reporting requirements on prize efforts, but doesn’t fund them??

]]> By: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-48426 Wed, 21 May 2008 17:08:58 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-48426 Ray, I’d put most of the money into COTS / COTS-D / cargo services as I think we should use the ISS leverage to get better / commercial transportation to LEO while that “market” is still there. I’d buy some suborbital flights for much the same reason. Any left over I would put into long-term research that would reduce the costs of exploration — e.g., closed life support and use of local resources, especially on the moon and asteroids.

— Donald

]]> By: Joel Raupe http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-48377 Wed, 21 May 2008 10:13:09 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-48377 That’s for the analysis, each of you. I believe the Committee decided on offering the next administration a higher bar to whittle from, and more “done deal” perhaps more costly to cut than presently, a goal NASA has apparently communicated to the Committee well. Perhaps the late appeal by members of the commerical sector last week made a stronger impact as well.

Among my favorites is the “and beyond” Earth orbit, language for private development, tucked away.

In keeping with similar “directive” intent included in such bills, not yet marked up with line items and heading for the leadership. there are ways of reading ideology into the speeches (and reports) everyone concerned can project their visions upon without much fear of correction. And NASA appears to have been granted a generous opportunity to make its case (while being removed from the politics of the coming federal elections)

]]> By: gm http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-48368 Wed, 21 May 2008 08:00:15 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/05/20/additional-tidbits-in-the-authorization-bill/#comment-48368 “He also points to an item in the NASA authorization bill telling the agency to negotiate with other spacefaring nations to agree on a common docking system”

this was my “Decision #001″ as “ghostChief” of ghostNASA in August 2006:

http://ghostnasa.blogspot.com/2006/08/decision-001-standardize-docking.html

it seems that NASA and Congress are quietly following all my ideas and ghostNASA “decisions”… :)

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