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Since becoming the ranking member of the Commerce, Justice, and Science subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee at the beginning of this Congress, Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) has issued a number of press releases congratulating NASA, and administrator Charles Bolden in particular, on various space agency milestones. An example is one release linked to the […] (Updated Friday 5:30 pm with time change for hearing) The full House Science, Space, and Technology Committee is holding a hearing this coming Tuesday, December 6th, from 10am-noon 2-4 pm, on “The Next Great Observatory: Assessing the James Webb Space Telescope”. NASA’s JWST program manager, Rick Howard, will testify, along with astronomers Roger Blandford and […] The FY12 budget was wrapped up and signed into law on Friday, but there are still some reactions to the bill filtering in. Last week Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-OH) issued a joint statement about the bill, praising elements of the bill that support the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, in […] Yesterday the House and Senate passed the “minibus” appropriations bill that includes the $17.8 billion for NASA in FY12 reported here earlier this week. With the President to sign the bill into law today, it marks the end of the FY12 appropriations process, far sooner than FY11, which dragged into April of this year, and, […] Yesterday members of Congress were honoring the past of space exploration. Today, they’ll be looking at the future. The space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee will be holding a hearing at 10 am EST today on “NASA’s Human Space Exploration: Direction, Strategy, and Progress”. NASA administrator Charles Bolden will be testifying at the hearing, […] It’s not uncommon for NASA to be on the hot seat in Congressional hearings, criticized by members of Congress for what the agency is or is not doing. Yesterday, though, at a hearing of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee’s space subcommittee on the future of NASA’s planetary exploration programs, NASA was treated like […] Here’s the breakdown of the final conference report funding for NASA compared to the President’s original budget request (PBR) and the versions of the budget passed by the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) and Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC): PBR HAC SAC Final Science $5,016.80 $4,504.00 $5,100.00 $5,090.00 Aeronautics $569.40 $569.93 $501.00 $569.90 Space Technology $1,024.20 $375.00 […] The space subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee is holding a hearing today on “Exploring Mars and Beyond: What’s Next for U.S. Planetary Science?”. Appearing before the committee are Jim Green, the director of NASA’s planetary science division, and Steve Squyres, the chair of the most recent planetary science decadal survey (and […] The House Appropriations Committee announced Monday night that House and Senate negotiators had reached agreement on a conference report on the so-called “minibus” appropriations bill that combines three separate bills, including the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) bill. The full conference report has not be published yet, but the committee did provide a “detailed summary” […] If you’re looking, in this era of reduced budgets, cost overruns, and battles over various program, for someone with an optimistic view of America’s space ambitions, well, Mark Albrecht probably isn’t the person for you. “The civil space program, in my opinion, is broken,” Albrecht, who had been executive secretary of the National Space Council […] |
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