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A blurb in this week’s Aviation Week (not online) notes that Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX), the House majority leader, has taken over work on introducing a NASA authorization bill that would support the President’s space exploration plan. House Science Committee chairman Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), had planned to introduce the President’s version of the NASA […] Most people in the space industry recognize HR 3752, the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004, as the bill that codifies into law the definitions of suborbital rocket and suborbital trajectory, and ensures vehicles that fall under those definitions are regulated by the FAA’s space transportation division and not its aviation division. (Those definitions […] The space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday afternoon (2:30 pm, Russell 253) on “Space Shuttle and the Future of Space Launch Vehicles.” There are two panels of witnesses scheduled: the first will feature Bill Readdy and Craig Steidle of NASA, while the second includes executives from ATK Thiokol, Lockheed […] The Senate Commerce Committee’s web site now lists the hearing scheduled for Tuesday on “International Space Exploration Program.” The hearing is scheduled for 3:30 pm in Russell 253, and will be webcast. The witnesses include the three mentioned here previously (Grahn, Logsdon, and Oberg), as well as Marcia Smith of the Congressional Research Service. According to a source, the space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing next Tuesday on unmanned lunar missions being planned, or are already in progress, by several other nations. The preliminary list of witnesses includes: John Logsdon of GWU (discussing Japanese missions) James Oberg (on Chinese plans) Sven Grahn of Swedish […] While there was some confusion about the time, location, and even existence of a House Appropriations Committee subcommittee hearing on NASA’s budget, the hearing did in fact occur. NASA released the opening remarks by Sean O’Keefe in that hearing, but the bigger news was the concern raised by leading committee members about the budget. Subcommittee […] At the AIAA International Policy Seminar on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), chairman of the House Science Committee, made it clear that he felt NASA would not get the full budget increase the President requested. The full text of the speech is on the House Science Committee site, and I have a condensed […] The VA-HUD-Independent agencies subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Wednesday on the NASA budget in Rayburn 2359. (According to the committee’s web site the hearing is scheduled at 10 am; SpaceRef.com reports that it is scheduled for 1 pm, although that may be based on older information.) NASA Administrator […] It’s been a relatively quiet period for space policy issues recently, so now’s a good chance to catch up on some legislation and resolutions that have been discussed here in the past: H.Res. 550, the House resolution calling for an independent evaluation of NASA’s decision to cancel the last shuttle servicing mission to Hubble, now […] Earlier this week the Senate Commerce Committee’s space subcommittee held a hearing on the potential dangers posed by near Earth objects (NEOs). I wasn’t able to attend the hearing, but I did listen to (most of) the audio-only webcast of the hearing. It seemed like a very straightforward discussion of NEOs, including search efforts and […] |
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