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NASA administrator Mike Griffin is in China right now meeting with his counterparts there and getting tours of various facilities. (Apparently not on the list, surprisingly, is the Chinese manned launch center in Jiuquan; a NASA spokesperson told AFP simply that those plans “did not work out”.) As has been the case since the plans […] The Salt Lake Tribune carried an op-ed this week by Eric Peters (identified as “an automotive columnist for The Army Times and The Navy Times“) who argues that NASA should be abolished and US space exploration efforts should be privatized. Why? NASA, he believes, is “constantly being outdone by smaller and innovative private space ventures […] Steinn Sigurðsson, an astronomer at Penn State, wrote a long entry on his blog Friday night about some potential changes to NASA’s Beyond Einstein program, a series of missions designed to study issues like the Big Bang and dark energy. The most recent plan, according to Sigurðsson, was to make a decision around 2010 on […] Later this month NASA Administrator Mike Griffin will travel to China later this month, spending several days there in meetings with his Chinese counterparts. SPACE.com surveys a number of policy experts on the upcoming visit, with the consensus being that this should be an opportunity for each country to get know the other, but is […] House Science Committee chairman Sherwood Boehlert told the AP Tuesday that he believes that NASA will be able to speed up development of Orion and thus reduce the gap in US government manned spaceflight capability when the shuttle is retired in 2010. Boehlert said he believed Michael Griffin will make a “determined effort” to speed […] And the beat goes on: the Hampton Roads (Va.) Daily Press, in an editorial yesterday, criticizes NASA for turning its back on the Earth through a series of “ominous signs”, including deleting a reference to the Earth while revising the agency’s mission statement. “The evidence that speaks the loudest is where NASA puts its money, […] Several days after three scientists resigned (or were asked to resign) from the NASA Advisory Council, administrator Michael Griffin fired back at the members, and scientists in general, in a memo, ScienceNOW reported late Tuesday. “The scientific community… expects to have far too large a role in prescribing what work NASA should do,” Griffin told […] The Associated Press and NASA Watch report that three members of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) have resigned, apparently because a difference of opinion with NASA leadership. Wesley Huntress, Charles Kennel and Eugene Levy all served on the NAC’s science committee. Huntress and Levy were asked to resign, while Kennel left of his own accord. […] The annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites is taking place this week at Utah State University. I’m not able to attend this year’s conference, but the Salt Lake City newspaper Deseret News has an article about NASA administrator Mike Griffin’s keynote address at the conference Monday afternoon. And while there were apparently some generic questions […] Friday morning’s sessions of the Mars Society conference featured a couple of talks on the relative importance of science versus exploration. First up was Scott Horowitz, NASA associate administrator for exploration: There’s a basic paradigm shift here from where we were a few years ago. We were “science driven, exploration enabling”; that’s the phrase we […] |
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