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With the Senate moving ahead with an authorization bill, what will the House do? “As the ranking member of the House authorizing committee, I’m eager to reauthorize NASA and get the train back on track,” Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX), ranking member of the House Science and Technology Committee, said earlier this week at a Space […] Much of the reaction outside Washington to yesterday’s passage of a NASA authorization bill by the Senate Commerce Committee was positive. “The legislation is an important, positive measure for our nation’s space exploration program that demonstrates fiscal responsibility, maximizes goals of the program and offers commitment to current workforce resources,” the Coalition for Space Exploration […] In the end, this morning’s markup was short and sweet, full on self-congratulation and lacking any debate or tension. The Senate Commerce Committee approved unanimously a NASA authorization bill that will “refocus and reinvigorate the agency in a smart, fiscally responsible way”, in the words of committee chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). The committee did […] At 10 am this morning the Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to take up its version of NASA authorization legislation, one of four bills that will be marked up during the meeting. “We expect to be able to pass the NASA bill tomorrow,” Sen. Bill Nelson, chairman of the committee’s space subcommittee and a primary […] There are at least two proposed amendments to the NASA authorization bill that the Senate Commerce Committee will take up that would address some commercial space issues. One, submitted by Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), would restore funding for the commercial crew program to the levels in the administration’s proposal. The funds would come from the […] The Houston Chronicle has obtained and posted a draft of the NASA authorization legislation that the Senate Commerce Committee will markup Thursday morning. A quick review of the legislation finds a number of changes from the White House’s proposed budget, some of which have been reported in varying details in recent days. Perhaps the biggest […] In late May NASA reassigned Constellation program manager Jeff Hanley, a decision most people first heard about during a House Science and Technology Committee hearing featuring administrator Charles Bolden. That decision triggered a strong reaction among some members of Congress who considered the move a form of retribution against a manager who opposed the agency’s […] While Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) played up the fact that “the biggest part of the president’s goals are being fulfilled” in the NASA authorization bill being considered this week, today’s Orlando Sentinel has another take. Based on a review of the draft of the bill it obtained, the Sentinel found that while Constellation would not […] [Apologies for the tardy post; I’m out of town visiting relatives.] Senate authorizers appear ready to put their stamp on the proposed new direction for NASA, according to a report published late Thursday by the New York Times. The NASA authorization legislation, scheduled to be marked up next Thursday by the Senate Commerce Committee’s space […] “Welcome to the 24-hour gaffe reel,” reads the lede to a Wall Street Journal article yesterday about the verbal missteps people in the media limelight often make. “It seems as if every day some celebrity, politician, four-star general or random blogger is committing a verbal blooper—and then profusely apologizing for his or her ‘poor word […] |
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