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Last week the House Republican leadership selected Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) to temporarily fill an open seat on the House Appropriations Committee. That vacancy opened up when another California Republican, Rep. John Doolittle, stepped down from the committee last month in the wake of an FBI search of his home as part of the broader […] The AIAA announced Monday that an “unprecedented coalition of nearly two dozen U.S. aerospace corporations” has signed off on a letter asking for more money for NASA. Aerospace companies, asking Congress to give NASA more money? Not exactly a surprising message. The letter cites both the joint funding resolution that cut several hundred million dollars […] A couple weeks ago we heard that we have to go back to the Moon or else the Chinese will turn it into a military base. Now we hear that Democrats want to “cripple” the nation’s human spaceflight program. At least, that’s the claim of Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL), after the House rejected an amendment […] This morning the House Science Committee’s space and aeronautics subcommittee will be holding a hearing on NASA’s space science programs in the FY2008 budget proposal, featuring the agency’s new associate administrator for science, Alan Stern, as well as several outside experts. The hearing will be at 10 am in Rayburn 2318 and will be webcast. […] Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) has been one of the members of Congress calling on NASA and the White House to fire NASA inspector general Robert Cobb. Today Nelson released a letter to Mike Griffin calling not only for Cobb’s dismissal, but also NASA general counsel Mike Wholley. Wholley raised the ire of Nelson and some […] The Houston Chronicle reported this morning that Congressman Nick Lampson (D-TX) is considering a run for the US Senate in 2008 against incumbent Republican John Cornyn. Lampson, who won the seat previously held by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (and which includes NASA JSC) is said to be considering the Senate run despite low […] That’s the proposal of Congressman Ken Calvert (R-CA), who is drafting legislation that would name the NASA research center at Edwards Air Force Base in California after Neil Armstrong, the Los Angeles Daily News reported Sunday. The name is fitting, since Armstrong worked there for several years in the 1950s and 1960s, flying the X-15 […] A couple of developments last week certainly were not helpful to the image of NASA and administrator Mike Griffin. On Friday the Washington Post reported that Congressman Brad Miller claimed that NASA destroyed evidence when it reportedly destroyed a videotape of a meeting between Griffin and embattled inspector general Robert Cobb. This development came a […] The Huntsville Times reports that NASA will keep the robotic lunar exploration office at MSFC open while it reevaluates its plan to close the office. A temporary victory, at the very least, for Sen. Richard Shelby and other allies of the office. However, even if the office remains open in the long term, there are […] The Commerce, Justice, and Science subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee held a hearing yesterday that included some discussion of NASA funding (you can be excused if you didn’t hear about it, since there were no details about the hearing released on the subcommittee’s web site). One person who did testify was Planetary Society executive […] |
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