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Congress is currently putting together an FY08 supplemental appropriations bill designed primarily to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, while the vast majority of the funding in the bill (over $165 billion) is devoted to the DOD, members of Congress are also tucking into the legislation a variety of non-defense provisions. If one […] Wednesday’s hearing of the space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee on the planned reauthorization of NASA and the Vision for Space Exploration covered familiar ground: discussion of the Shuttle-Constellation gap, the belief that NASA is being asked to do too much for too little money, worries about being dependent on the Russians, and a […] While the attention of most people has been focused on issues like food and fuel prices, the presidential campaign, and so on, a problem has been developing that potentially could have repercussions for space policy. In the last few weeks tensions have been rising between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia over two […] When Canada’s Industry Minister, Jim Prentice, blocked the planned sale of the space unit of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), the buyer, Alliant Techsystems (ATK), had 30 days to respond to the decision, a period that is coming to an end this week. The Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported late last week that […] If former senator and astronaut John Glenn had his druthers, he would keep the shuttle flying after 2010, he said Tuesday after a Capitol Hill event, according to Florida Today. “The shuttles may be old, but they’re still the most complex vehicles ever put together by people, and they’re still working very well,” he said. […] It seems like there are more articles these days about the lack of space policy specifics from the presidential candidates than there are articles about what policy statements they have made. The latest in that former category is a report by the public radio program Marketplace, which reviews the lack of discussion about space policy […] The Planetary Society will hold the second of its “town halls” on space exploration policy this Wednesday on the campus of Georgia Tech in Atlanta. This event will feature Bill Nye and Lon Levin (a co-founder of XM and a member of the Planetary Society’s board), among others. This is the second in a series […] In today’s issue of The Space Review, Charles Miller and I write part 2 of “The Vision for Space Exploration and the retirement of the Baby Boomers”. A few weeks after we looked at the impending fiscal pressures that imperil NASA and the Vision for Space Exploration. The solution to these challenges, we argue, is […] The Libertarian Party is not looking good in the eyes of many after they invited Richard Hoagland to speak at their national convention later this month in Denver. However, maybe the problem isn’t with the party, but the city. The Rocky Mountain News reported recently that a local man is seeking a referendum on a […] |
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