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In Canada’s federal elections yesterday, Marc Garneau, the first Canadian astronaut, won a seat in Parliament representing the Westmount-Ville-Marie riding in the Montreal area. Garneau, a Liberal, is succeeding a retiring liberal MP, Lucienne Robillard, who had won the previous four elections there. Garneau had previously run for the House of Commons in another riding […] Florida Today> this morning published a very brief statement by the McCain campaign designed, it seems, to rebut Democratic criticism that a President McCain would freeze NASA’s budget if elected. The statement, credited to Mario Diaz, Southeast Regional Communications Director for the McCain campaign: Recently John McCain sent a letter to the President about […] Today’s Florida Today features an editorial endorsing Bill Posey for the Congressional seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Dave Weldon. Posey, a Republican, is running against Democrat Steve Blythe (who beat out a staunchly pro-space candidate in the Democratic primary in August) and two independents. The editorial argues that Posey will be a “strong advocate […] World Space Week is a relatively obscure observance, virtually unknown outside the space community and not universally known inside it. Yet the event, which this year ran from October 4 to today, prompted statements from both presidential candidates. On Sunday the Obama campaign issued its statement, and yesterday the McCain campaign quietly released its own […] As part of a cabinet shakeup last week, the UK got a new science minister, Paul Drayson, a businessman who has a PhD in robotics. And within days of taking office, he is making waves by endorsing the concept of a UK astronaut program, as The Guardian reported earlier this week. The British government is […] NASA announced thursday that it will provide an “update” Friday on next year’s scheduled launch of the Mars Science Laboratory. MSL is the giant Mars rover with a correspondingly large—and growing—price tag. As Aerospace Daily reported last week (and others have reported in recent days), budget and schedule concerns could cause MSL to miss its […] The Barack Obama campaign formally announced the release of a new 60-second ad that mentions the space program, at least in a historical context, at the very beginning: The campaign claims in a press release that the ad is “the first by either presidential candidate to highlight the space program”. However, as you can […] In an interview with Orlando television station WKMG, Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden touched upon space policy during a discussion of what changing factors had caused support for the Obama-Biden ticket to increase in Florida recently, as measured in some polls: “Well, I think there are a number of things,” Biden said. “One, you have […] The closest thing to space in last night’s debate was this quip by John McCain criticizing what he considered to be Barack Obama’s big-spending ways: He voted for nearly a billion dollars in pork barrel earmark projects, including, by the way, $3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago, Illinois. My friends, […] As the New York Times notes, “It’s not every day that the head of a federal agency in a Republican administration during an election year writes a glowing thank-you note to the Democratic candidate for president.” But that was the case last week, when NASA administrator Mike Griffin wrote a letter to Sen. Barack Obama […] |
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