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NASA administrator Mike Griffin appeared before the House Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday to answer questions about the agency’s FY2009 budget proposal. During his opening statement, Griffin revealed that NASA will seek approval from Congress to purchase additional Soyuz flights beyond 2011 (the current limit as set by the Iran Nonproliferation Amendments Act of […] Amidst all the recent sturm und drang associated with NASA’s implementation of the exploration vision, er, policy—be it sour grapes from losing contractors or sincere technical concerns—is a deeper question: why are people so riled up about this in the first place? In an extended article in this week’s issue of The Space Review, Bob […] At the end of an interview with CBS News’ Bill Harwood, NASA administrator made some interesting comments regarding recent criticism of the Ares 1 launch vehicle, such as the potential thrust oscillation problem with the vehicle’s first stage: Q: On a different topic, the Ares rocket and the Constellation program continue to generate questions among […] Now that the administration has released its FY 2009 budget proposal, Congress is gearing up for hearings on that budget, including some devoted to the NASA budget. The House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on February 13th at 10 am devoted to the NASa budget request, with NASA administrator Mike Griffin the […] The reaction to the proposed FY 2009 NASA budget has been decided muted: few people seem terribly excited about the budget, but then, few people are terribly outraged about the budget as well. After taking into account the accounting shift that moves management and operations expenses into the Cross-Agency Support account, there are few radical […] The White House has posted this morning the overall FY2009 budget proposal, including an overview of the NASA budget. The administration is requesting over $17.6 billion for NASA in FY09, up from the $17.3 billion the agency got for the current fiscal year. The summary has only a few details about the budget, calling out […] In this week’s issue of The Space Review I report on Mike Griffin’s defense of the current exploration architecture that he made in a speech last month. This is an expanded version of a post here on the speech, with a review of the logic that NASA followed under Griffin that led to the current […] As noted in the comments of the previous post, NASA is changing the name of the Vision for Space Exploration to the rather more prosaic “U.S. Space Exploration Policy”. Why it’s making the change, and whether the change was at NASA’s own instigation or at the request of the White House, is the subject of […] Earlier this week the Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied a protest by Rocketplane Kistler (RpK) regarding the NASA COTS recompete. RpK had protested NASA’s use of a funded Space Act Agreement (the same type that RpK had, and then lost, last year when it failed to meet milestones in the agreement) for the COTS recompete, […] It’s probably too soon to be talking about the legacy of Mike Griffin as NASA administrator, since he still has about a year left on the job (assuming he doesn’t leave early or is kept on by the new administration). However, any discussion of his influence on NASA, positive or negative, in the years to […] |
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