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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is hosting a talk on Tuesday, May 23, by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), titled “Exploration and the Future of U.S. Leadership in Space.” According to the talk’s description, Hutchison’s speech will encompass “the future of the International Space Station, its role in the Vision for Space […] Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is best known to readers as a strong advocate of space commercialization in particular. But did you know that he’s also—like seemingly about every other person in southern California—an aspiring screenwriter? Or, perhaps, was an aspiring screenwriter: he announced yesterday that he would return $23,000 he received from convicted producer Joseph Medawar […] That’s what NASA is facing with next month’s resignation of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX), according to the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill. His departure “could bolster DeLay’s opponents on space exploration” and other matters, the article claims. That’s probably a bit of a stretch, since unlike other hot-button issues (or perhaps simply “unlike hot-button issues”, […] An article in this week’s issue of Space News (no subscription required) identifies the key problem NASA backers face in their efforts to add a billion or more dollars to NASA’s FY07 budget: the extra money is not in the overall budget allocation for the appropriations subcommittee that has jurisdiction over NASA. The article notes […] That’s the cry of two leading Democrats on the House Science Committee, who announced Monday that they want the president to remove Conrad Lautenbacher as the administrator of NOAA. Full committee ranking member Bart Gordon (D-TN) and David Wu (D-OR), ranking member of the environment, technology, and standards subcommittee, said they want Lautenbacher and John […] A major satellite project that’s over budget and behind schedule? That’s hardly news in Washington these days. Still, the problems associated with the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) warranted the attention given them during a hearing of the House Science Committee on Thursday. The hearing was coordinated with the release of a report […] Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), chairman of the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee, spoke at an STA breakfast a couple weeks ago about the NASA budget and related issues (I only got around to this now because of travel and other work, plus, there’s another STA breakfast with Tom DeLay scheduled for this […] House Speaker Dennis Hastert has appointed two additional Republicans, Randy Neugebauer (TX) and Mario Diaz-Balart (FL), to fill vacancies on the House Science Committee. Diaz-Balart will get a seat on the space subcommittee; he said in the committee’s statement that he looks forward to, among other things, “address[ing] issues facing NASA.” The full committee has […] Bill Nye (left) and Louis Friedman at The Planetary Society’s press conference in LA Thursday. The Planetary Society issued a press release and held a press conference during the International Space Development Conference (ISDC) in Los Angeles Thursday to announce its “Save Our Science” effort. According to TPS executive director Louis Friedman, “thousands” of people […] The AIAA is planning a “Space Weather Day” on Capitol Hill on Thursday, giving government and industry officials an opportunity to impress upon Congressional staffers the importance of monitoring space weather. Speakers include officials from NOAA, NASA, the Air Force, Lockheed Martin, and the aviation and utility industries, who are most affected by solar storms. […] |
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