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Today’s Houston Chronicle has an article about efforts to develop a national memorial to the shuttle Columbia accident in east Texas. There are local memorials in several communities that were in the debris footprint or otherwise involved in the recovery work, but there is no federally-funded, centralized memorial to the accident yet. Previous efforts for […] The full Senate Appropriations Committee today approved an appropriations bill that includes $17.45 billion for NASA. The press release doesn’t offer many details about the NASA portion of the bill, although at first glance it appears that the committee made few, if any, major changes to what the subcommittee approved on Tuesday. Space News reports […] The Commerce, Justice, and Science subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee marked up an FY208 appropriations bill this afternoon that includes $17.45 billion for NASA, according to Space News (subscription required), about $150 million more than what the administration requested but about $150 million less than what their House counterparts approved earlier this month. Full […] To follow up on Sen. Mel Martinez’s visit to KSC, Florida Today reports today that the senator will work to “minimize” the gap between the shuttle and Orion. It’s a little unclear at first whether this means he’ll try to shorten the existing period between the two programs (currently projected to run from late 2010 […] Despite representing Florida, Sen. Mel Martinez (R) has been far less vocal on space policy issues than his fellow Floridian, Sen. Bill Nelson (D), who chairs the space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee. However, Central Florida News 13 reports that Sen. Martinez will visit the Kennedy Space Center on Monday, meeting with NASA officials […] Key leaders of the House Science and Technology Committee issued a press release criticizing the White House for its lack of interest in Sen. Barbara Mikulski’s “space summit” proposal. The statement, by full committee chairman Bart Gordon and subcommittee chairmen Mark Udall and Nick Lampson, said they were “deeply disappointed” in the response by the […] As you may recall, earlier this year that Sen. Barbara Mikulski called for a “space summit” with the President regarding NASA’s programs and funding. That proposal picked up bipartisan support in Congress, but no response from the White House—until now. Yesterday Sen. Mikulski announced that she had received a response, from outgoing OMB director Rob […] Late this afternoon the full House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to meet to take up the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill, the one that includes funding for NASA. [update: as noted in the comments the hearing has been postponed until further notice.] The subcommittee added about $300 million to the agency’s overall total in its […] Space News (subscription required) reported online late yesterday that the commerce, justice and science subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee approved a $17.6-billion FY08 budget for NASA during a markup hearing on Monday. That top-line figure is about $300 million more than the president’s request (although less than what many people have been hoping and […] |
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