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As the New York Times notes, “It’s not every day that the head of a federal agency in a Republican administration during an election year writes a glowing thank-you note to the Democratic candidate for president.” But that was the case last week, when NASA administrator Mike Griffin wrote a letter to Sen. Barack Obama […] In last night’s debate, Sen. John McCain reiterated his campaign’s stance on reducing spending through a (nearly) across-the-board budget freeze: So we’re going to have to tell the American people that spending is going to have to be cut in America. And I recommend a spending freeze that — except for defense, Veterans Affairs, and […] Many bloggers profess their disdain for the so-called mainstream media, in particular one of its central institutions, the New York Times. Yet some are willing to take their commentary cues from articles published in the paper, including this article Monday about the US reliance on Russia for access to the ISS once the shuttle is […] The Republican National Committee’s “Obama Spend-O-Meter”, which includes Obama’s plans to increase NASA funding as part of a “liberal fiscal agenda”, has attracted the attention of Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL). “The McCain campaign has just stepped in it,” Nelson said, according to Florida Today. Some more Nelson comments from the Orlando Sentinel: It’s not only […] The Obama campaign forwarded to me the following statement (not available on the campaign web site, as best as I can tell) ostensibly about World Space Week, which started Saturday and runs through the 10th. Reading through it, though, it’s clearly designed to differentiate Obama from McCain on space policy, particularly for Florida audiences: Senator […] The Republican National Committee recently issued a document dubbed the “Obama Spend-O-Meter”, describing what it calls “Obama’s liberal fiscal agenda”. And in the midst of that lengthy list of spending initiatives, totaling over $1.2 trillion, is this one: Obama Has Proposed $2 Billion In Additional NASA Funding. “Sen. Barack Obama has detailed a comprehensive […] A former president and a former Senate majority leader both hailed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s stance on space policy this week. Former president Bill Clinton, speaking in Florida, called Obama’s space policy a sign of the candidate’s ability to “an eye on the future”, according to the Orlando Sentinel: “He has a plan […] During Friday night’s presidential debate, Barack Obama made a passing reference to the Shenzhou 7 mission that was in progress at the time: The third thing we have to do is we’ve got to make sure that we’re competing in education. We’ve got to invest in science and technology. China had a space launch and […] While the Obama campaign issued a statement Monday generally supporting a wide variety of options for dealing with the Shuttle-Constellation gap, Senator Obama is being a little more specific. In a letter from Obama’s Senate office to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Obama explicitly calls for an extension of NASA’s […] The Orlando Sentinel reports this morning that the Obama campaign has issued a brief statement on how it would close the gap in ISS access between the shuttle’s retirement and the introduction of Constellation. The statement, in response to a question by the newspaper about his stance on an extension of NASA’s INKSNA waiver, doesn’t […] |
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