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The president assembled quite a group at the White House last night: NASA administrator Charlie Bolden and deputy administrator Lori Garver, former astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Sally Ride, and science advisor John Holdren. A space policy summit? Nope, a star party, attended by 150 middle schoolers with a focus on science education, not space policy. […] In a speech on the Senate floor Monday to introduce the Senate’s version of the Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations bill, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), the ranking member of the appropriations subcommittee that worked on the bill, fired a few shots at the Augustine committee and its report. “While I commend the Augustine Commission for […] Yesterday most of the Texas Congressional delegation—both senators and 26 of its 32 representatives—sent a letter to President Obama asking him to direct additional stimulus funding to NASA. Specifically, the letter requested that the White House request a redirection of $3 billion in stimulus funding from unspecified programs to NASA to provide initial basis for […] NASA announced Friday that the Review of US Human Space Flight Plans Committee will hold another meeting on Thursday the 8th via teleconference. The purpose of the meeting is the “finalization of scoring of options the committee presented in their summary report” released last month. (The meeting is being held via teleconference and the public […] One of the featured speakers at yesterday’s Space Investment Summit 7 in Boston was Jeff Greason, president of XCOR Aerospace. Rather than talk about his company, though, Greason talked about his work as a member of the Review of US Human Space Flight Plans Committee (aka the Augustine committee), providing his own perspectives and viewpoints […] The AIAA announced yesterday that it will host an online broadcast of a panel discussion about the Augustine committee report on October 5. The panel, moderated by David Livingston of The Space Show, includes Frank Culbertson, Scott Horowitz, John Klineberg, Elliot Pulham, and Harrison Schmitt. The audio-only broadcast is scheduled for 2 pm EDT on […] |
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