By Jeff Foust on 2009 November 24 at 7:21 am ET The House Science and Technology Committee has released the witness lineup for its hearing next Wednesday, December 2, on “Ensuring the Safety of Human Space Flight”:
Mr. Bretton Alexander, President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation Dr. Joseph Fragola, Vice President, Valador Inc. Mr. Jeff Hanley, Program Manager, Constellation Program, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, NASA Mr. John Marshall, […]
By Jeff Foust on 2009 November 17 at 7:05 am ET An intriguing hearing has popped up on the schedule of the aviation subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee: “Commercial Space Transportation”. No other details about the hearing are listed, other than the date (December 2, 10 am).
The overall T&I committee is chaired by James Oberstar (D-MN), best known in space circles for […]
By Jeff Foust on 2009 November 17 at 6:57 am ET The House Science and Technology Committee has released the list of witnesses for Thursday’s hearing on “The Growth of Global Space Capabilities”:
Marty Hauser, Vice President, Washington Operations & Research and Analysis, The Space Foundation J.P. Stevens, Vice President, Space Systems, Aerospace Industries Association Scott Pace, Director, Space Policy Institute, George Washington University Kai-Uwe Schrogl, […]
By Jeff Foust on 2009 November 16 at 8:34 pm ET On Thursday Time magazine released its annual “best inventions” list. Topping the list as the best invention of the year, in the minds of the magazine’s staff, were NASA’s Ares rocket, dubbing the Ares 1 “a machine that can launch human beings to cosmic destinations we’d never considered before”. Nitpickers would note that the Ares […]
By Jeff Foust on 2009 November 14 at 10:01 am ET One of the more prominent space supporters in the Senate won’t be leaving as soon as previously planned. As both the Washington Post and The Hill report, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) plans to remain in the Senate at least through the Texas gubernatorial primary next March. Hutchison, who is running for governor against incumbent […]
By Jeff Foust on 2009 November 12 at 12:36 pm ET The space subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee has announced a hearing next week titled “The Growth of Global Space Capabilities: What’s Happening and Why It Matters”. The hearing will be Thursday the 19th at 10 am; no list of witnesses or hearing charter is available yet.
By Jeff Foust on 2009 November 11 at 1:09 pm ET If you recall last week’s post about a bipartisan “Dear Colleagues” letter to drum up support for increasing NASA’s budget, there’s a minor update. According to an updated blog post on NSS.org, the deadline for obtaining additional signatures, which had been November 5th, has been pushed back to November 17th. There’s no reason for the […]
By Jeff Foust on 2009 November 9 at 6:51 am ET Last Monday Sen. Bill Nelson claimed that the White House would make a decision about NASA’s future by around Thanksgiving, based on a recent visit he had with the president on the subject. However, in an interview with Florida Today, Nelson appears to be telling a different story. Asked about the timeline for a decision, […]
By Jeff Foust on 2009 November 6 at 1:20 pm ET Yesterday the Senate passed its version of HR 2847, the Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations bill, which includes NASA. The bill funds NASA at $18.686 billion, the same level as requested in the White House budget proposal and more than $480 million above what the House passed earlier this year. This passage was spun in […]
By Jeff Foust on 2009 November 5 at 1:07 pm ET While Save Space has gone into overtime in its bid to solicit a half-million letters to the White House on space exploration policy, members of Congress are also writing letters, to both fellow members of Congress as well as the White House. The Orlando Sentinel reported Wednesday on the latest effort by Congressman Bill Posey […]
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