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After a couple of years of tumult and turmoil, one of the few members of the US Senate who is active on space issues says she’ll leave the institution this year “excited” about the future of NASA. “I am just very excited that we are now going forward, I think, with NASA in a good […] Several key members of Congress have expressed their support for a deal announced Tuesday between NASA and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) on the agency’s commercial crew program. That deal will allow NASA to make at least two awards in the next round of the competition and use Space Act Agreements, as the agency had sought […] We noted here earlier this week that, in a speech last week, Office of Science and Technology Policy director John Holdren may have gone a little too far in taking credit for the recent successful SpaceX Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) test flight. “This represents an entirely new model for the American space program,†Holdren […] A former NASA astronaut seeking to represent a central California district in Congress will advance to the general election, but may face an uphill battle to win. In the primary election in California’s 10th District, Jose Hernandez, a Democrat and former NASA astronaut, finished second to incumbent Republican Jeff Denham. (Under California’s new open primary […] The space subcommittee of the House Science Committee is holding a hearing at 10 am Eastern today on the launch indemnification program, which is due for renewal this year. The program requires commercial launch providers to take financial responsibility (typically through insurance) for any third-party damages from a launch up to the “Maximum Probable Loss”, […] Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), chairman of the Commerce, Justice, and Science subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, has been critical of NASA’s commercial crew program, expressing his concerns about the program during hearings about the administration’s fiscal year 2013 budget proposal. In his role as subcommittee chairman, he incorporated language into the report accompanying the […] Some members of Congress cheered when SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft last Tuesday. Some members offered congratulations when the Dragon berthed with the station last Friday. And, yesterday, some praised SpaceX and NASA when the Dragon splashed down successfully in the Pacific off the California coast, completing a test […] A two-time former member of Congress who has been active on space issues won a Democratic primary for another Texas district last night. Nick Lampson won the primary for Texas’s 14th congressional district along the Gulf Coast south of Houston, currently held by Ron Paul, who is retiring. (The Republican nominee will be determined in […] Perhaps it was the fact that the berthing took place on a Friday of a holiday weekend, with Congress in recess. Or, perhaps, members thought they said enough with the successful launch of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 in the early morning hours Tuesday. In any case, the reaction from members of Congress […] Days after the House passed a defense authorization bill that includes an export control reform provision, a Colorado senator has introduced similar legislation in the Senate. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) announced Tuesday that he introduced the “Safeguarding United States Leadership and Security Act of 2012″ to provide for export control reform. The text of the […] |
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