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The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued a brief analysis of the NASA budget, focusing on the changes in out-year projections for the agency’s budget through the end of the decade. Those projections are significantly lower in the FY07 budget proposal than the one two years ago, which was released immediately after the unveiling […] Louis Friedman, executive director of The Planetary Society, published an essay on the TPS web site earlier this week condemning NASA plans to curtail some of its planned long-term robotic exploration of Mars. Citing a front-page article in last week’s edition of Space News, Friedman wrote, “NASA has not only eliminated work on a sample […] Yesterday’s announcement that NASA will fly an impactor probe to the Moon as a secondary payload on the rocket that will launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was, in some respects, allegorical: NASA’s long-term lunar exploration plans also appear to be on a collision course with technical and budgetary realities. NasaSpaceFlight.com reports that both the CEV […] I wasn’t planning to say anything about Gregg Easterbrook’s essay in Slate last week that criticized NASA’s exploration initiative. That’s in part because Easterbrook didn’t say anything new (in a blog post over two years ago he echoed a theme in his Slate essay that there would be nothing for astronauts at a Moon base […] Some of the coverage about yesterday’s release of NASA’s new “information policy” (which says, in essence, that NASA employees are encouraged but not required to coordinate media interviews with public affairs officers) focused instead on NASA administrator Michael Griffin’s apparent, if not intended, endorsement of Rep. Tom DeLay last Friday night in a speech in […] The Houston Chronicle weighs in on the comments made Friday night by NASA administrator Mike Griffin that appeared to many to be an endorsement for the campaign of Rep. Tom DeLay. According to the Chronicle, Griffin said the following at Rotary National Award for Space Achievement event Friday night: “The space program has had no […] A couple bits of good news for space scientists yesterday: NASA reversed its earliest decision to cancel the Dawn asteroid mission, reinstating it after a review at NASA headquarters. NASA also announced Monday that it has partially restored funding cut from the agency’s astrobiology program. Good news for scientists, right? Well, sort of. It’s definitely […] It may not seem like it, but the 2008 presidential election is almost upon us. (Some might argue it’s already here.) That’s something that NASA is acutely aware of as it tries to build up public and political support for the Vision for Space Exploration, Deputy Administrator Shana Dale said at a Space Transportation Association […] In a post earlier this week about a meeting between scientists and NASA officials at a planetary sciences conference, I noted that there appeared to be a “disconnect” between scientists and NASA officials; the latter seemed to be genuinely puzzled regarding why scientists were so angry about the NASA budget. A reader who has some […] NASA administrator Michael Griffin spoke before a committee of the Florida House of Representatives on Thursday about issues related to the infrastructure associated with the Kennedy Space Center. According to the AP account of Griffin’s visit; Traffic-free roads, affordable housing and quality schools in Florida all factor into NASA’s ability to attract the best workers […] |
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