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A couple of quick notes about the debate on the deletion of the reference to planet Earth in NASA’s mission statement: in a comment in earlier post on the topic, Oliver Morton provides an excerpt of an editorial in last week’s issue of Nature that is critical of the move. (It is also perhaps the […] As you may have noticed from the earlier post on the subject, the question about the relative roles of the CEV and COTS programs has generated significant debate. And it’s not just here: John Kavanagh has taken up the question at COTS Watch, asking a series of open questions about the roles of the two […] On the heels of the somewhat overblown story that NASA had changed its mission statement to delete a reference to Earth sciences come some editorials in major newspapers critical of NASA’s overall priorities. The New York Times published one such editorial Friday, claiming that “earth studies seem to be in trouble”. Evidence for this includes […] NASA’s Crew Exploration Vehicle program, a cornerstone of the Vision for Space Exploration, is now facing criticism from two sides. On Tuesday the Space Frontier Foundation released a white paper calling the agency’s CEV development plans “unaffordable and unsustainable”. The Foundation is particularly critical of the “Block 1″ CEV, designed for low Earth orbit operations, […] I have been trying very hard the last several days to get worked up by the New York Times story Saturday that NASA has quietly changed the mission statement of the space agency, deleting a reference to studying the planet. I haven’t been successful, but a lot of other people, particularly in liberal neighborhoods of […] It’s common knowledge in the space community that a significant fraction of the general public overestimates—often wildly—the amount of money NASA gets. A particularly egregious example of this is a letter to the editor that appeared in Monday’s issue of the Courier-Post newspaper, which serves the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia: I shudder when I […] In an op-ed piece in Monday’s edition of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, astronomer and author Adam Frank describes the tug of war going on among various NASA programs for funding. After describing the benefits provided by NASA science programs, Hubble in particular, and the current funding problems for science programs, he concludes, “With this […] bridges, a quarterly publication of the Office of Science & Technology at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, has several articles in its new issue on space policy. A couple of them deal with European and transatlantic policy issues, such as a discussion of Europe’s Galileo and GMES programs and a review of US-European space […] In an essay in this week’s issue of The Space Review, Taylor Dinerman argues that the exploration program budget should not be raided to pay for science programs. He is concerned that steps like this in the early stages in the development of the CEV and the newly-named Ares launch vehicles could jeopardize their long-term […] With the shuttle set to launch this afternoon (or Sunday afternoon, or later, depending on technical issues and the weather), NASA administrator Mike Griffin will make some appearances on Sunday morning TV news shows. Griffin will be on Fox News Sunday to specifically talk about the shuttle launch and then on CNN Late Edition, presumably […] |
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