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You know how some of those old game shows would have a “lightning round” where contestants would have to answer as many questions as they could in a minute or so? Yesterday’s Senate hearing on the shuttle and the future of human spaceflight was something along those lines. The hearing started about 15 minutes late […] The California Space Authority has posted a letter signed by 67 members of Congress who support “full funding” of NASA. (Warning: the file is over 8 MB in size.) The letter is addressed to Reps. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Alan Mollohan (D-WV), the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee with […] It hasn’t shown up yet on the committee’s web site, but the Senate Commerce Committee’s science and space subcommittee is apparently planning a hearing for next week on issues associated with the retirement of the shuttle and the introduction of the CEV. Such a hearing has been anticipated for some time: new committee chairwoman Sen. […] The Commerce, Justice, and Science subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing Thursday on the NASA FY06 budget, with administrator Griffin scheduled to testify. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the ranking Democrat on that subcommittee, offered a hint of what she and her colleagues may be most interested in during a Maryland Space Business […] A front-page article in today’s Washington Post examines how House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has begun to suffer from the ethics allegations that have dogged him for months. DeLay has adopted a lower public profile, eschewing the joint news conferences held by the Republican leadership, and has encountered fundraising problems “as businesses fret that DeLay […] There have been rumors for weeks that former Congressman Nick Lampson, who lost his reelection bid in November after a controversial redistricting, might consider a bid against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in 2006. The Galveston Daily News reports today that Lampson will make his bid official today, about 18 months before the general election. […] It’s conventional wisdom that Marshall Space Flight Center’s future is reasonable secure: new NASA administrator Mike Griffin said as much during his first press conference last month. That doesn’t mean, though, that the center’s supports, including Rep. Bud Cramer, aren’t keeping the pressure on to support the center. “I think we may have rounded a […] As you may recall, a few months ago there was a frisson of concern about HR 656, a bill introduced by Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN), ranking minority member of the House Transportation Committee, that would amend the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act (CSLAA) with additional safety provisions. Most of the entrepreneurial suborbital community opposed those […] The listing for Thursday’s hearing by the House Science Committee on NASA earth science programs has added some more people. One of the people now scheduled to testify is Berrien Moore, who is the co-chair of a National Research Council study on “Earth Science and Applications from Space”. That report, according to one source, will […] The full House Science Committee is planning a hearing for this Thursday at 10am on “NASA Earth Science”. Witnesses include NASA associate administrator Al Diaz and three earth scientists. I haven’t seen any other details about specific topics of interest during the hearing, although it will be interesting to see how scientists think NASA’s Earth […] |
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