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No big surprise here: most major media outlets have projected Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) as winners of their reelection campaigns. Both were anticipated to win by wide margins, and the results to date have met those expectations. Oh, it’s a wonderful day today, isn’t it? Not just because we get to exercise our right to vote, but because it means an end to the flood of campaign ads where candidates and their allies accuse their opponents of being liars, phonies, spawn of Satan, or, worst of all, Washington insiders. For space advocates, […] As I noted in previous post, it can be difficult to find information on what positions (if any) Congressional candidates hold on space. I discovered this first-hand when I tried to learn what the candidates for the open US Senate seat here in Maryland thought about space policy in general, and NASA in particular. Maryland […] It’s rare for NASA to emerge as a campaign issue in Congressional campaigns. One of those rare events was this week, when the NASA budget made a cameo appearance in the Ohio Senate race between incumbent Republican Mike DeWine and Democrat Sherrod Brown. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, DeWine played up money he has […] One of the little provisions tucked away inside the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 called on the Department of Transportation to commission a report on “the liability risk sharing regime in the United States for commercial space transportation”. Under the current system (which the same legislation extended through the end of 2009), commercial […] The Congressional reaction to NASA’s decision yesterday to reinstate a shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope has been overwhelmingly positive: House Science Committee chairman Sherwood Boehlert and space subcommittee chairman Ken Calvert jointly praised the decision. “The Shuttle missions to the Hubble have been by far the most important contributions the Shuttle program […] [Sorry about the long gap between posts: I was tied up by a trip to New Mexico and other work.] The attitude in the headline is essentially that expressed by Rep. Bud Cramer (D-AL) during a visit to Boeing’s launch vehicle manufacturing facility in Decatur, which will become the United Launch Alliance’s key facility once […] The FTC’s decision yesterday to permit the formation of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) has, unsurprisingly, been widely hailed by members of Alabama’s Congressional delegation. Manufacturing of both Atlas and Delta vehicles will be consolidated in Boeing’s Decatur, Alabama factory, adding perhaps several hundred employees. Congressmen Bud Cramer (D) and Robert Aderholt (R) both congratulated […] The House Science Committee will be holding another hearing at 10 am this morning, this time to take up the GOES-R satellite program, hoping to avoid the problems associated with the NPOESS weather satellite program. A GAO report on GOES-R will be officially released at the hearing; a GAO official will be one of the […] While NASA administrator Mike Griffin’s trip to China has not resulted in any great breakthroughs in Sino-American space cooperation (with pre-trip expectations kept accordingly low), at least one member of Congress isn’t happy Griffin went to China in the first place. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) issued a statement criticizing NASA and the Bush Administration for […] |
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