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Although most of the attention here has been on the space policies of the presidential candidates, as well as key Congressional candidates, there is one other election today with direct relevance to space. Voters in Otero County, New Mexico, which includes the city of Alamogordo, will be voting on a sales tax increase to help […] Last week the Space Frontier Foundation announ ced it had found a funding source for the human spaceflight option (“Capability D”) of COTS: the $2 billion in additional funding that both John McCain and Barack Obama have promised for NASA during the presidential campaign. “It’s time that our national leaders give American entrepreneurs a shot […] The Planetary Society has published its “Principles of the Roadmap to Space”, its guiding principles for NASA that it asks the next president to endorse. The key elements of these principles: Human exploration of Mars should be a primary goal The United States’ human space flight program is an enduring symbol of global leadership, and […] Today’s Houston Chronicle asks Houston-area Congressional candidates questions on key issues, which, not surprisingly, includes NASA. Specifically, the Chronicle asked the Democratic and Republican candidates in the 7th, 10th, and 22nd Districts, “Do you favor the Bush administration’s budget blueprint for NASA? Would you increase funding for the space agency?” The sound-bite-sized repsonses published by […] |
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