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The science, state, justice, and commerce subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, whose jurisdiction includes NASA, marked up their appropriations bill on Wednesday. Details about the bill are scant, based principally on this statement in the press release about the bill: National Aeronautics and Space Administration receives $16.7 billion, $462 million above the FY06 base […] This afternoon the full House Science Committee is holding a hearing on the status of the NPOESS satellite program, in the wake of the completion of the Nunn-McCurdy preview. (2:30pm, Rayburn 2318; the meeting will be webcast) According to a committee media advisory, the hearing will tackle these issues: Are the new launch dates and […] In case you missed it, here are the lineup of witnesses scheduled for today’s Senate Commerce Committee space subcommittee hearing on “NASA Budget and Programs: Outside Perspectives”: Dr. Roy B. Torbert Director University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center Dr. Peter Voorhees Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University Dr. Jim Pawelczyk Associate […] The 2006 Space Blitz, a citizens space lobbying effort by the multi-organization Space Exploration Alliance patterned after ProSpace’s March Storm, kicked off yesterday. According to a National Space Society press release, “The main focus of this year’s Blitz is to request that Congress fund NASA at the full authorized level of $17.9 billion, which would […] The Senate Commerce Committee’s science and space subcommittee is scheduled to hold a hearing this Wednesday afternoon titled “NASA Budget and Programs: Outside Perspectives”. That’s the only information about the hearing available as of early this morning; the witness list has yet to be published on the committee web site. Earlier this month a group of fiscal conservatives in the House put forward a budget resolution proposal that, according to an article in today’s issue of The Hill, “was as nearly identical as possible to the 1995 budget resolution” during the heyday of the “Contract with America”, with sharp cuts on federal spending. However, unlike […] In her speech last week at CSIS, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison endorsed (although not by its specific name) NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program to support the development of commercial vehicles to transport cargo and personnel to and from the ISS. She sees this approach as one way of dealing with the potential four-year […] This week’s print edition of Space News reported that Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), speaking at a Maryland Space Business Roundtable luncheon last week, suggested that the solution to NASA’s budget woes might be for Congress to approve $2 billion in “emergency” supplemental funding . Such a move, which Mikulski said she planned to discuss with […] Elsewhere in her speech at CSIS, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison discussed legislation the Senate Commerce Committee recently passed regarding the American Competitive Initiative and similar Congressional efforts: We are now going to focus on having more math and science majors in college, produce more scientists and more research in America, and NASA needs to be […] Yesterday Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington on “Exploration and the Future of U.S. Leadership in Space.” What seems to have attracted the most attention, and perhaps some confusion, are some comments she made in her speech about the role the ISS could play regarding […] |
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