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The New York Times, perhaps taking a cue from NASA administrator Mike Griffin’s testimony in Senate hearings last week, criticizes the tendency of Congress to add earmarks to NASA’s budget in an editorial Sunday: The space agency is struggling to mount a vigorous program of exploration and scientific research within a tight budget. So what […] Yesterday’s hearing on the NASA budget by the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee was attended by two members: chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) and ranking member Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). (Cynics would note that these two should be identified as Sens. Shelby (R-MSFC) and Mikulski (D-GSFC/STScI).) While it was clear in the questioning of […] X Prize founder Peter Diamandis will be in Capitol Hill today, but he won’t be there primarily to talk about commercial spaceflight or space tourism. Instead, he will be one of the witnesses of a House Science Committee hearing this morning on “H-Prize Act of 2006″ (HR 5143), legislation recently introduced by Congressman Bob Inglis […] Yesterday’s relatively brief, congenial hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee’s space subcommittee on NASA covered the usual topics: the transition from the shuttle to the CEV and concerns about the length of the gap between the two programs, aeronautics funding, and miscellaneous issues. (For some general coverage, check out SPACE.com, Florida Today, and the New […] While most of the hearing activity in Congress this year about NASA has been on the House side, the Senate will be paying attention to the space agency this week. The science and space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday afternoon on “National Aeronautic and Space Administration Issues […] Most of the media attention regarding a House Appropriations Committee subcommittee hearing two weeks ago about the NASA budget focused instead on claims by members of the subcommittee that the US was engaged in, and perhaps losing, a new space race with China. The American Institute of Physics published its own summary of the hearing […] One of the key issues that Congress has debated regarding the Vision for Exploration is the gap in manned spaceflight capability between the end of the shuttle program in 2010 and the introduction of the CEV, no later than 2014. Now that efforts to accelerate development of the CEV to shorten that gap seem to […] Wednesday marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of Columbia on STS-1, the first shuttle mission. In recognition of that milestone, Congress passed late last week a resolution congratulating NASA for the anniversary. The resolution, H.Con.Res 366, also honors the crew of STS-1, John Young and Robert Crippen, and “commends the men and women of […] Presidential science advisor John Marburger appeared before the science, state, justice, and commerce subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee last week to discuss the proposed overall FY2007 science and technology budget. According to a summary of the hearing provided by the American Institute of Physics, the topic of the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) and NASA’s […] The House Appropriations Committee’s Science, State, Justice, and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing Thursday afternoon to take testimony from members of Congress. (Or, at least, that’s the gist from a barebones hearing description on the committee’s web site.) One of those providing testimony was House Science Committee chairman Sherwood Boehlert. In his opening statement, he […] |
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