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Republican presidential candidate John McCain is willing to spend more money on NASA and consider human exploration of Mars, according to a report on washingtonpost.com. McCain, meeting with Florida newspaper editors, said, “I’d be willing to spend more taxpayers dollars” on NASA. How much more money, he doesn’t say (or at least washingtonpost.com doesn’t report), […] The House Science and Technology Committee unanimously approved HR 6063, the NASA Authorization Act of 2008, during a markup session on Wednesday. Space News [subscription required] reported that the committee made only minor changes to the bill, including a new provision that requires the Office of Science and Technology policy to examine “the merits of […] Sen. Bill Nelson said last month that he had been talking to Barack Obama about space policy and taking credit for changes in Obama’s recent statements. But Nelson is not the only member of Congress counseling Obama on space issues. Rep. Bud Cramer (D-AL), whose district includes NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, told the Birmingham […] Later today the full House Science and Technology Committee will mark up, and likely approve, HR 6063, the NASA Authorization Act of 2008. On the eve of that markup, the AIAA formally endorsed the legislation and urged the House to pass it. In that press release and accompanying statement, AIAA president George Muellner praised a […] As last week’s ISDC panel proved, getting the presidential campaigns to talk about space in any detail is difficult: policy comes out in dribs and drabs at town hall meetings and speeches, but rarely to the level of detail desired by space advocates. The argument made for that lack of detail is that space is […] [Apologies for the outage over the weekend: the site was offline because of a technical issue with the server that has been rectified for now, although there may be briefer outages in the near future for server or other upgrades.] As promised, in The Space Review on Monday I provided a more thorough review of […] |
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