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When Mike Griffin became administrator of NASA a little over two years ago, he made it clear that he felt his tenure there would be limited and not to exceed beyond January 2009, when a new administration takes over and (presumably) picks a new administrator. While at least one member of the Senate is counting […] The House Science and Technology Committee’s investigations subcommittee and the Senate Commerce Committee’s space subcommittee announced today that they will hold a joint hearing next week about the NASA Inspector General, Robert Cobb, who has been the subject of scrutiny by members of both committees. According to the headline of the Senate press release, Cobb […] This morning the House Science Committee’s space and aeronautics subcommittee will be holding a hearing on NASA’s space science programs in the FY2008 budget proposal, featuring the agency’s new associate administrator for science, Alan Stern, as well as several outside experts. The hearing will be at 10 am in Rayburn 2318 and will be webcast. […] Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) has been one of the members of Congress calling on NASA and the White House to fire NASA inspector general Robert Cobb. Today Nelson released a letter to Mike Griffin calling not only for Cobb’s dismissal, but also NASA general counsel Mike Wholley. Wholley raised the ire of Nelson and some […] The wires were buzzing yesterday with a report that NASA has rejected Russian cooperation in lunar exploration. Or, at least, that’s what Anatoly Perminov, the head of Roskosmos, claimed in an Interfax article, which was picked up uncritically by AFP and AP. “We were ready to cooperate but for unknown reasons, the United States have […] The Houston Chronicle reported this morning that Congressman Nick Lampson (D-TX) is considering a run for the US Senate in 2008 against incumbent Republican John Cornyn. Lampson, who won the seat previously held by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (and which includes NASA JSC) is said to be considering the Senate run despite low […] That’s the proposal of Congressman Ken Calvert (R-CA), who is drafting legislation that would name the NASA research center at Edwards Air Force Base in California after Neil Armstrong, the Los Angeles Daily News reported Sunday. The name is fitting, since Armstrong worked there for several years in the 1950s and 1960s, flying the X-15 […] In this week’s issue of The Space Review, Eric Hedman argues that the best solution to NASA’s current problems implementing the Vision for Space Exploration is to increase its budget so that it accounts for a full one percent of the federal budget, compared to its current level of about 0.6 percent. The idea isn’t […] A couple of developments last week certainly were not helpful to the image of NASA and administrator Mike Griffin. On Friday the Washington Post reported that Congressman Brad Miller claimed that NASA destroyed evidence when it reportedly destroyed a videotape of a meeting between Griffin and embattled inspector general Robert Cobb. This development came a […] The Huntsville Times reports that NASA will keep the robotic lunar exploration office at MSFC open while it reevaluates its plan to close the office. A temporary victory, at the very least, for Sen. Richard Shelby and other allies of the office. However, even if the office remains open in the long term, there are […] |
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