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In this week’s issue of The Space Review I have an article about the CSIS forum on US-China space cooperation last week that I briefly summarized here. There’s some more details on how Congress views China and its space program, but also on cooperation in general. One interesting insight from the forum is that while […] The Senate Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to approve an emergency funding amendment that would give NASA an additional $1 billion in FY 2007. The best coverage of the bill comes from Space News (subscription required), Florida Today, and ScienceNow, there are also some more general wire stories by AP and Reuters. Space News notes in […] The American Astronomical Society is the latest organization to issue a statement in favor of the Mikulski emergency funding amendment, which will be debated by the full Senate Appropriations Committee in a hearing starting at 2 pm this afternoon (which you should be able to hear via CapitolHearings.org). The text of the AAS statement follows: […] In addition to the lobbying efforts noted earlier today to try and get Sen. Mikulski’s emergency NASA funding amendment passed, a couple of other organizations are making a push to win support for it. The SETI Institute sent out a special message to the subscribers of its electronic newsletter, asking them to send messages in […] Yesterday morning CSIS hosted a discussion on US-China space cooperation with two members of Congress, Reps. Mark Kirk and Rick Larsen, as the featured speakers. One of the more interesting comments made during the event was by Kirk, as he described how the “three tribes that run Washington”, namely the White House, Senate, and House, […] The commerce, justice, and science subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee approved Tuesday legislation that would give NASA $16.757 billion for NASA in FY2007, according to a Space News report (subscription required). (The committee press release about the bill rounded that figure up to $16.8 billion.) That’s $35 million less than what the administration requested; […] After the Challenger accident in 1986, the Air Force renamed its classified satellite control center, Sunnyvale Air Force Station (whose main building is known informally as the “Blue Cube”), after Challenger astronaut and Air Force officer Ellison Onizuka. However, in the latest BRAC round the Onizuka Air Force Station was slated for closure by 2011. […] The Hill, the Capitol Hill newspaper, summarizes a portion of last week’s appropriations floor debate when members introduced amendments to either divert funding from NASA or prevent it from being spent on “a manned mission to Mars”. The post’s title, as well as The Hill headline, comes from a comment by Rep. David Obey: “Some […] CSIS is hosting an event Tuesday, July 11 titled “The U.S., China, and International Cooperation on Space Exploration”. The featured speakers are the co-chairs of US-China Working Group in the House, Congressmen Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL). They traveled to China in January, including a making a rare visit to the Jiuquan launch […] An article in this week’s Space News (freely accessible online) provides an update on efforts to win “emergency” funding for NASA to overcome some of fiscal constraints the agency has been experiencing. As previously noted, Sens. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) have advocated an emergency spending measure that would give NASA up […] |
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