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Yesterday’s Senate hearing wasn’t exactly a lovefest for Griffin: there were a number of tough questions from the two senators in attendance, Bill Nelson and Kay Bailey Hutchison, touching on everything from shuttle retirement plans to the impending US reliance on Russian spacecraft for ISS access to potential layoffs at KSC after the shuttle retirement […] During yesterday’s Senate hearing on the impending retirement of the space shuttle, NASA administrator Mike Griffin and space subcommittee chairman Sen. Bill Nelson got into a debate regarding exactly when the space shuttle would be retired. Griffin’s opening statement stated the following: “I would like to give you an update on our plans to ensure […] There has been a lot of speculation (okay, rumors) the last couple of days about the fate of the so-called “Mikulski Miracle”, the $1 billion the Senate added to NASA’s FY08 appropriations, as the conference committee works out the differences between the House and Senate versions of the Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations bills. This […] The space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee will be holding a hearing this Thursday morning (10 am, SR-253) on “Issues Facing the U.S. Space Program after Retirement of the Space Shuttle”. The purpose of the hearing, according to the subcommittee, will be to “address issues related to the retirement of the Space Shuttle, its […] There’s no shortage of potential financial concerns at NASA that are worth of the attention of the media, from whether the agency’s budget is sufficient to handle all of its projects to worries about cost and schedule overruns on various programs to general financial management concerns. But those are all dry, boring steak to the […] President Bush happened to be in the neighborhood, it seems, so he decided to greet the STS-120 crew upon their return to Houston on Thursday. Bush met with the astronauts and their families at Ellington Field upon their arrival there, one day after the astronauts returned to Earth on the shuttle Discovery. According to the […] The House Science Committee’s space subcommittee hearing on NASA’s near Earth object (NEO) study that was scheduled for last month but postponed because of the funeral for Rep. Jo Ann Davis is still planned to take place next Thursday, the 8th, at 10 am. The list of speakers remains pretty much the same: Dr. James […] One of the leading rationales for increasing NASA’s budget, such as the proposed $1-billion increase the Senate approved earlier this month, has been to try and shorten the gap in US government human spaceflight access between the end of the shuttle program and the beginning of Orion flights. Earlier this year NASA administrator Mike Griffin […] The Democratic leadership of the House, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, now appears inclined to support the so-called “Mikulski miracle”, the $1 billion added by the Senate to the NASA budget in its version of the FY08 appropriations bill approved earlier this week. “In the House there’s some increased interest in keeping that $1 billion in […] |
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