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I attended Thursday afternoon’s hearing of the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee regarding DOD-NASA cooperation on space transportation issues. There wasn’t too much from the hearing that was newsworthy, but here are a few random tidbits that may be of interest: The one news item from the meeting was that Craig Steidle, the NASA Associate […] The number of cosponsors for H. Res. 550, a House resolution calling for an independent review of the NASA decision to cancel the last Hubble servicing mission, has now crossed the 30 mark. The Mars Society announced in an email message today that the resolution now has 34 cosponsors. A check of Thomas revealed that […] The House Science Committee issued a “media advisory” late Wednesday regarding the space subcommittee’s hearing Thursday on DOD/NASA cooperation on space transportation issues. The extensively-revised list of witnesses now reads as follows: Rear Admiral (Ret.) Craig Steidle, NASA Associate Administrator for the Office of Exploration Systems Major General (Ret.) Robert Dickman, Deputy for Military Space […] There are few stauncher proponents of space exploration in the House than Rep. Nick Lampson (D-TX). The congressman, whose district includes the Johnson Space Center, introduced the Space Exploration Act in both this Congress and the previous one. The bill (HR 3057) would set a series of ambitious space exploration goals for NASA. You would […] Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), the chair of the House Science Committee, delivered a speech Monday at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. While most of the speech focused on the physics research performed there, he did have a few things to say about NASA, primarily funding for the new exploration initiative and the competition for […] The space and aeronautics subcommittee of the House Science Committee has scheduled a hearing this Thursday at 1pm to discuss “NASA-Department of Defense Cooperation in Space Transportation”. According to SpaceRef, the list of witnesses includes John Schumacher (NASA Chief of Staff), “Dr. Johnson-Freese” (probably Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor at the Naval War College who has […] The full Senate has restored $600 million in funding to NASA’s proposed FY2005 budget. The six senators who represent Alabama (Sessions and Shelby), Florida (Graham and Nelson), and Texas (Cornyn and Hutchison) introduced an amendment during floor debate on S. Con. Res. 95 to “provide full funding for NASA’s FY 2005 space exploration initiatives”. The […] The office of Senator Mikulski has posted a copy of the letter from Admiral Gehman to Mikulski offering his review of NASA’s decision to cancel the SM4 Hubble servicing mission. (Although O’Keefe said he had requested Gehman carry out the review, the report was actually delivered directly to Mikulski, and not to NASA.) The gist […] The Mars Society (which, for rather unclear reasons, has been leading the push to save Hubble), sent out a statement yesterday claiming that the number of cosponsors for H. Res. 550, the resolution calling on NASA to review the SM4 cancellation decision, had grown to 21. However, the official list of cosponsors remains at the […] The Mars Society emailed a statement Monday (not available on its web site) claiming that the number of cosponsors for H.Res. 550, a resolution calling for NASA to independently review its decision to cancel the last Hubble servicing mission, had risen to 13. However, the official list of cosponsors, as of midday Tuesday, remained at […] |
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