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While the Senate version of the NASA authorization bill, S. 3729, made it clear that the heavy-lift launch vehicle it calls for, the Space Launch System, should be developed by “extend[ing] or modify[ing] existing vehicle development and associated contracts”, it wasn’t specific beyond that in terms of vehicle design. However, as Space News reported Friday, […] A major space power is grappling with a number of problems: constrained space budgets, debates about future programs, and concerns that, in the bigger scheme of things, space just isn’t a major priority. A description of the US? In fact, it’s a description of Europe’s current situation, as reported Monday in the Wall Street Journal. […] “No asteroids need apply — U.S. space policy is on a collision course with itself,” is the lede of a Washington Post editorial Sunday about the current space policy debate. The editorial’s key concern is that the White House’s proposal tries to do too much in human spaceflight with not enough money, and is thus […] In a speech Friday afternoon at the Thirteenth Annual International Mars Society Convention in Dayton, Ohio, former NASA administrator Mike Griffin offered a one-sentence summary of his opinion about the White House’s plans for NASA: “We’re not going anywhere and we’re going to spend a lot of money doing it.” He actually had a lot […] The big vote in the US Senate on Thursday was on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, but the Senate also took care of some legislation as well, including the NASA authorization bill, according to a press release issued by the Senate Commerce Committee Thursday evening. (The press release doesn’t explicitly state […] In a joint op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel today, Sens. Bill Nelson and Kay Bailey Hutchison defend their plan for the space agency that’s incorporated into the NASA authorization legislation currently in the Senate. “Working with the White House, Senate colleagues and others, we have developed bipartisan legislation to get NASA on what we believe […] What does the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) have in common with Congress? They’re both growing impatient with NASA for details on the agency’s commercial crew plans. The NAC’s commercial space subcommittee “expressed dissatisfaction with some of the information they have received from NASA managers on the agency’s approach” for commercial crew, Aviation Week reported. The […] POLITICO has a few more details about the detailed effort to get the NASA authorization bill to the House floor before the House went on recess. According to the report House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was briefly involved when members of California and Ohio objected to plans to bring the bill up under suspension of […] |
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