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Several key members of Congress have expressed their support for a deal announced Tuesday between NASA and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) on the agency’s commercial crew program. That deal will allow NASA to make at least two awards in the next round of the competition and use Space Act Agreements, as the agency had sought […] Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), chairman of the Commerce, Justice, and Science subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, has been critical of NASA’s commercial crew program, expressing his concerns about the program during hearings about the administration’s fiscal year 2013 budget proposal. In his role as subcommittee chairman, he incorporated language into the report accompanying the […] At the Global Space Exploration Conference, or GLEX, in Washington two weeks ago, one of the conference’s organizers, the AIAA, issued a press release stating that its new president, former NASA administrator Mike Griffin, would hold a press conference where the organization “will call on Congress to establish space exploration policy goals which transcend partisan […] Some members of Congress cheered when SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft last Tuesday. Some members offered congratulations when the Dragon berthed with the station last Friday. And, yesterday, some praised SpaceX and NASA when the Dragon splashed down successfully in the Pacific off the California coast, completing a test […] Perhaps it was the fact that the berthing took place on a Friday of a holiday weekend, with Congress in recess. Or, perhaps, members thought they said enough with the successful launch of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 in the early morning hours Tuesday. In any case, the reaction from members of Congress […] Former astronaut Mark Kelly—perhaps best known as the husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords—reveals in an op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel that he initially was not a suporter of the Obama Administration’s change in direction for NASA. “I was not a fan at first of canceling the Constellation rocket program. I worried about what it […] Shortly after SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket placed the company’s Dragon spacecraft into orbit early Tuesday, the White House issued a congratulatory statement from John Holdren, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. “Partnering with U.S. companies such as SpaceX to provide cargo and eventually crew service to the International Space Station is […] Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is campaigning in Florida today, which prompted President Obama’s campaign organization in the state to issue a statement calling on Romney to take a position on space policy. “Today, Floridians deserve to know if Mitt Romney agrees with his Republican allies in Congress or if he stands with President […] The relationship between NASA’s Ames Research Center (ARC) and Internet search giant Google has occasionally attracted scrutiny. For the last few years H211, a holding company owned by top Google officials, has based several aircraft at the center’s Moffett Field, allowing them to be used by NASA for scientific flights as well as for other […] Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) appears to side with the administration regarding when NASA should select a commercial crew provider. Nelson told Florida Today he opposed language in the report accompanying the CJS appropriations bill that would direct NASA to make an immediate downselection to one or, at most, two companies. “Why should we not have […] |
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