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In comments at a Space Transportation Association breakfast on Thursday, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said it was unlikely that Congress would pass an authorization bill for NASA this year. “To be honest with you, we’re running out of time,” he said. There are only two weeks in the legislative calendar after this week before […] This week’s print edition of Space News has a couple of interesting articles about some budget problems that some military space programs are facing: The Defense Department has asked Congress for permission to reprogram $102 million of the $271 million that had been appropriated for FY2004 for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), a satellite […] According to a fairly well-informed source, the House Science Committee (most likely just the space subcommittee) plans to hold a hearing next week on NASA’s Centennial Challenges program. No word yet on a specific date and time (although I think we can rule out the 11:30am-2pm time frame on Tuesday) nor on witnesses. It will […] The Space Transportation Association has announced that it will be hosting a breakfast on Thursday, July 8, with House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) as the featured speaker. (The details are not yet on the STA’s web site, but registration begins at 8am with DeLay scheduled to speak at 9am; the breakfast will be at […] This is late notice (I’m still catching up on work from being in Mojave the last couple days), but the House Science Committee has postponed a hearing scheduled for this morning on the Aldridge Commission’s final report. No reason for the cancellation, nor any information on a rescheduled date/time, was announced. The House Appropriations Committee is having second thoughts about the Defense Department’s decision to fund two EELV providers, Space News reported Friday. (subscription required) According to a committee report accompanying the Defense Department appropriations bill, “the Committee believes fully funding one contractor may be a wiser approach to assured access than the current approach of […] At this afternoon’s hearing of the space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee, subcommittee chairman Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) announced that he was introducing today NASA authorization legislation for FY 2005. (The legislation hasn’t yet shown up on Thomas.) Brownback said the legislation “would provide the necessary authority for NASA to implement the exploration commission’s […] The science subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee has a hearing scheduled for Thursday afternoon at 2:30 pm (room SR-253) regarding the final report of the Aldridge Commission, with Pete Aldridge himself scheduled to testify. (I did not see this hearing on the committee’s web site earlier this week, so either it is a late […] Lost in all the media attention surrounding the Aldridge Commission’s final report was this short editorial in Wednesday’s edition of the Christian Science Monitor. The editorial comes out in favor of incentives like tax breaks for commercial space ventures, something that was recommended by the commission. It was interesting, and pleasantly surprising, that the Monitor […] This week’s print edition of Space News (not available online) has a couple of interesting quotes from members of Congress about funding for the exploration program versus other projects both within and outside of NASA. Rep. John Larson (D-CT), member of the House Aerospace Caucus, had this to say about NASA’s support of exploration versus […] |
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