Senate appropriators to mark up NASA spending bill Tuesday

By Jeff Foust on 2012 April 15 at 7:40 pm ET

Congress is returning from spring break this week, and at least in the Senate they’re wasting no time getting down to business. The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up its proposed appropriations bill for FY 2013 on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 pm EDT. That appropriations […]

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NSS to step up plans to advocate for NASA human spaceflight programs

By Jeff Foust on 2012 April 13 at 10:47 am ET

The National Space Society plans to increase its efforts to advocate for NASA’s human spaceflight programs in the near future, but will also act as a watchdog for at least one element of that effort, the space advocacy organization’s executive director said Thursday.

Paul Damphousse, who became NSS’s executive director early this year, told the […]

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Hutchison and Nelson on the same page regarding NASA

By Jeff Foust on 2012 April 10 at 6:33 am ET

Literally on the same page. The two co-authored an op-ed that appeared Monday in a few different publications, ranging from the Sacramento Bee to the Bangor Daily News. The essay gives them the opportunity to restate their vision for NASA, including the agreement Congress and the White House reached last year that identified development of […]

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Briefly: Mikulski’s supernova, Brown’s letter, Palazzo’s public-private support

By Jeff Foust on 2012 April 5 at 8:11 am ET

What do you get the senator who has been one of the biggest supporters for space-based astronomy? How about an exploding star! The AP reports that a supernova will be named after Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) at a ceremony Thursday in Baltimore to inaugurate a new archive facility at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The […]

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“60 Minutes” segment becomes a political football

By Jeff Foust on 2012 April 4 at 1:20 pm ET

Sunday night, the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” aired a segment (video above) on the impact the retirement of the Space Shuttle program has had on Florida’s Space Coast, including profiling some of the people who lost their jobs as a result and the broader economic impact on the community. It’s hard not to sympathize […]

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A new approach for property rights in space

By Jeff Foust on 2012 April 3 at 6:43 am ET

The issue of property rights in space has long been a topic of interest to commercial space advocates, although few others have paid much attention to it over the years. The conventional interpretation has been that private property rights aren’t possible under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits nations from claiming the Moon or […]

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