|
||||
|
A person attending this morning’s Augustine committee panel session at MIT passed along, via Twitter, this comment from committee chairman Norm Augustine: “I’m told that some of the decision documents are on [Obama’s] desk right now”. That should not be that surprising, since a decision would have to be made soon (if not already) to […] Space advocates in the UK finally got something Thursday they had long sought: a national space agency. Minister for Science Innovation Lord Drayson announced the plans for the space agency Thursday at the Rutherford Appleton Space Conference. The “bureaucracy busting agency” will bring together a number of government departments and other offices and was billed […] NASA administrator Charles Bolden’s comments earlier this week that greater international cooperation would be a priority for NASA in the near future has attracted some debate. To learn more about potential advantages of obstacles to such cooperation, Scott Pace of GWU’s Space Policy Institute is speaking on “International Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Space Policy” […] The full House Science and Technology Committee is holding a hearing this morning titled “Decisions on the Future Direction and Funding for NASA: What Will They Mean for the U.S. Aerospace Workforce and Industrial Base? “ (This was originally planned to be held by the space subcommittee, the third in a series of hearings on […] Those who attended yesterday’s AIAA/WIA joint luncheon expecting the speaker, NASA administrator Charles Bolden, to make major announcements about the future direction of the agency came away disappointed. “I’m not going to talk about Augustine,” he said early in his speech, referring to the Augustine committee and its final report released in October. “If you […] Congressional appropriations negotiators reached agreement last night on an omnibus spending bill for FY 2010 that is largely good news for NASA. Only the top-level details of the consolidated appropriations bill have been released by House and Senate appropriators, but the summary for the Commerce, Justice, and Science section indicates NASA will get $18.7 billion […] Yesterday’s rollout of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo vehicle featured appearances by two sitting governors: Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Bill Richardson of New Mexico. However, there wasn’t much in the way of politics at the event other than a brief statement by Richardson, echoing something he said over a year ago: We know that being […] To pick up an earlier theme of space advocacy and its problems, I’ve confirmed that the executive director of the Mars Society, Chris Carberry, has resigned. Carberry cited “irreconciable differences” with the organizations founder, Robert Zubrin, in an email and follwup phone call yesterday. There hasn’t been an official statement about the leadership change from […] In brief introductory comments at a Space Transportation Association (STA) breakfast, Congressman Parker Griffith (D-AL) sounded the alarm about NASA funding and what he perceived as a lack of interest in the subject by the president. “We cannot frame this Ares 1/Constellation project in terms of the current economy,” he said. “The decision to go […] Haven’t gotten your fill of discussion about the Augustine committee and its final report? MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics is hosting a panel discussion about the committee’s work on December 11. Two members of the committee, chairman Norm Augustine and MIT professor Ed Crawley, will speak, among others. |
||||
|
Copyright © 2024 Space Politics - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||
