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In this week’s issue of The Space Review I’ve written up a more detailed account of last week’s House Science Committee space subcommittee hearing about commercial space, with a focus on both the regulatory issues Rutan raised as well as how export controls are affecting these ventures. In the same issue Sam Dinkin proposes a […] The Nation, a left-leaning magazine, published an article about House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s influence over NASA and its budget. The article largely rehashes the issues most regular readers of this blog are familiar with: DeLay’s addition of JSC into his Congressional district, his last-minute move to top off NASA’s FY05 budget request, and the […] Burt Rutan was the star witness at a House Science Committee space subcommittee hearing Wednesday on future markets for commercial spaceflight. Rutan, not surprisingly, used the hearing to argue that the current regulatory environment—cemented in place with the passage of the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act last year—is not effective for “aircraft-like” commercial suborbital spacecraft. […] Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), the new chairman of the space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee, issued a press release on the occasion of the subcommittee’s first hearing this year, on ISS research. In the release Hutchison promised “a reinvigorated subcommittee that oversees and works with NASA leaders” on ISS research and (presumably) related […] People ask members of Congress to take all sorts of action on space-related issues: support the Vision for Space Exploration, fully fund NASA, keep Hubble operating, save Enterprise. Save Enterprise? The TV show? Yesterday I stumbled across an online ad that linked to this page, part of a grassroots effort to revive the show from […] While the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee will take up commercial spaceflight policy issues Wednesday morning, the Senate Commerce Committee’s space subcommittee will be meeting at the same time for a hearing on ISS research. Two panels of speakers are planned, including NASA associate administrator Bill Readdy and astronaut Mike Fincke. Sen. Hutchison, who chairs […] The House Science Committee’s space subcommittee will be holding a hearing this coming Wednesday, April 20 on “Future Market for Commercial Space”. The hearing, at the very least, promises some prominent names: Panel I Mr. Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites, LLC; and Mr. Will Whitehorn, President, Virgin Galactic. Panel II Mr. Elon Musk, Chairman and Chief […] The Senate Commerce Committee finally released yesterday the assignments of its members to its various subcommittees, including the Subcommittee on Science and Space. The leadership of the subcommittee—chairwoman Kay Bailey Hutchison and ranking member Bill Nelson—had already been announced, but the rest of the members are just now known: Ted Stevens (R-AK) Conrad Burns (R-MT) […] The Senate is often called a slow, deliberative body, but it can act quickly when it wants to. Early yesterday it appeared that the Senate Commerce Committee would not act on Michael Griffin’s nomination until a full committee markup session scheduled for today; indeed, at one point during the day Griffin’s name appeared on the […] At yesterday’s confirmation hearing, the leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee appeared willing to agree to a request from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and expedite Michael Griffin’s nomination, planning a vote to recommend his nomination later in the day. However, that vote was delayed, the Hampton Roads (Virginia) Daily Press reports, because Sen. George Allen […] |
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