|
||||
|
Most of the debate in the last week regarding “openness” at NASA has focused on claims that the NASA officials have tried to squelch comments by one scientist on climate change issues. However, an article in Saturday’s New York Times expands the focus to other efforts by NASA’s public affairs staff, in particular an effort […] Space News offers a sneak peek at the top-level figures in NASA’s FY07 budget proposal, to be made public on Monday. Overall the agency is getting about a one-percent increase over the final 2006 figure (including hurricane relief monies), to $16.792 billion. That increase, as expected, is spread unevenly: the exploration program will get $3.9 […] Orlando Sentinel aerospace editor Michael Cabbage has started a new blog, The Write Stuff, and has kicked it off with the transcript of a recent interview with NASA administrator Michael Griffin. The interview covers a broad range of subjects, from the shuttle to space science. On the budget, Griffin has this to say: NASA is […] The front-page article in this week’s issue of Space News (not available online) summarizes some technical changes NASA has made to the Crew Exploration Vehicle and Crew Launch Vehicle. Most of those changes have been publicized elsewhere, including a decision to drop the requirement for a methane/LOX engine for the CEV and lunar module ascent […] This time of year it’s customary for NASA officials, as well as their counterparts in other federal agencies, to beg off questions about the pending budget proposal, claiming that either they don’t know the details of the budget or noting that the details are embargoed until the budget’s release in early February. Of course, every […] A few other items from Mike Griffin’s speech at the AAS yesterday: The biggest applause generator was a comment made by Griffin early in his address that his love of astronomy and his appreciation of the work done by Hubble and other space telescopes “prompted my decision that NASA will, if at all possible, use […] NASA administrator Mike Griffin introduced a new term to the budgetary lexicon yesterday: “undercosting”. Speaking at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) conference in Washington DC yesterday, Griffin responded to a question about the cost overruns on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) by saying that “I have characterized it as an undercosting.” The remark generated […] Bloomberg News reported late yesterday that the Bush Administration’s proposed FY2007 budget “would carve savings from programs such as Medicare, NASA and agriculture.” The article quotes Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, who believes that any budget increases are “going to be below the rate of inflation” for everything other than […] Remember Triana, aka “Goresat”, the earth and space sciences satellite dreamed up (arguably literally) by then Vice President Al Gore about eight years ago? Science reports in its latest issue that NASA has “quietly terminated” the mission. Unfortunately, that’s all that the free summary provides, and I don’t have a subscription. As you may recall, […] In the run-up to September’s release of the results of the Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) there was considerable debate regarding whether NASA should develop a shuttle-derived or EELV-derived heavy-lift launcher—or none at all. While NASA now plans to build the shuttle-derived heavy-lifter, Grant Bonin reexamines the case for relying instead on “medium-lifters” (where “medium” […] |
||||
|
Copyright © 2026 Space Politics - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||
