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Today’s Houston Chronicle features an article about the space policy positions of the remaining presidential candidates, including a number of new, albeit minor, details. (Disclosure: I was interviewed for, and quoted in, the article.) Perhaps the biggest is a formal clarification from the Obama campaign that the Illinois senator supports reducing the gap between the […] NPR’s All Things Considered program on Saturday included a segment on how the three remaining major presidential candidates stack up on space. The four-minute report largely covers material previously reported here (NPR was no more successful than anyone else in coaxing more information out of the Obama campaign about his space policy views). One interesting […] Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was in Houston yesterday to make a speech at the “Houston Presidential Energy Summit”, the only one of the three major candidates to speak at the event. According to a report at PoliGazette by someone who is clearly a supporter of, or at least sympathetic to, Clinton, the candidate did […] Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was interviewed Thursday by report Tom Beres of Cleveland’s WKYC-TV on a number of topics, including NASA—of topic of some interest there given the presence of the Glenn Research Center. In the interview, Obama says the space program has been “stuck” for a number of years with the shuttle. He […] Former president Bill Clinton was in Houston yesterday stumping for his wife, and he briefly addressed the issue of human spaceflight, according to the Houston Chronicle: Clinton pointed out that Hillary Clinton places more of an emphasis than Obama on human space travel. “This is the center of American space travel,” he said of Houston […] While Ron Paul is continuing his presidential campaign—a decision many may consider quixotic given John McCain’s virtual lock on the Republican nomination at this point—he does have a separate election looming: the Republican nomination for the 14th Congressional District in Texas, a seat Paul has held for over a decade. Paul is facing a strong […] Not wanting to get too far out on a limb, Sunday’s Florida Today features an article headlined “Election may affect NASA future”. The article doesn’t directly address what the next president might do to change space policy, but rather looks at the debate about whether the Ares 1 is the best vehicle to implement NASA’s […] Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) paid a visit to the Space Coast on Wednesday, and touched upon both NASA as well as space policy in the presidential campaign during a speech there. On the election, Nelson said Florida’s role as a swing state in the general election could continue to make space an issue in the […] The science policy forum held Saturday afternoon at the AAAS meeting in Boston took place on relatively short notice, so much so that the event did not appear in the program for the conference. It was only by around midday on Friday did flyers announcing the event start appearing throughout the Hynes Convention Center, which […] The AAAS meeting in Boston hosted a presidential science policy forum Saturday afternoon, featuring representatives of the Clinton and Obama campaigns (other candidates were also invited; the McCain campaign sent its regrets and the Huckabee and Paul campaigns did not respond, according to organizers.) Most of the 90-minute event was devoted to general science and […] |
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