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Former congressman Nick Lampson tells the Houston Chronicle in today’s edition that he is not a candidate for the NASA administrator job. Lampson said he has not undergone the background checks and other vetting that would correspond with being a candidate for the job. And about those reports he had met with White House Chief […] The Washington Post’s Joel Achenbach, who wrote the article expressing Sen. Bill Nelson’s frustration at the lack of a NASA administrator, blogged today about another potential candidate: Congressman Bart Gordon, chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee. Achenbach said he asked Gordon about the job and that Gordon “said he already has the best […] If one believes the conventional wisdom, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) has effectively blocked the potential nominations of Scott Gration and Steve Isakowitz to be NASA administrator for one reason or another. If true, that makes a comment that Nelson told the Washington Post in an article Sunday about the search for an administrator and a […] While former Congressman Nick Lampson may not be in the running to be NASA administrator, he has picked up an endorsement of sorts from the current Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, the Orlando Sentinel reports. “I think he is a great person” for the NASA administrator job, she told the paper. “I really know […] Today’s Houston Chronicle reports on rumors that Nick Lampson is under consideration to become NASA administrator. There is not much new in the article beyond what has been previously reported (Lampson did not respond to requests for comment) but there is an interesting quote from Rep. Gene Green (D-TX), clearly taken offguard by the reports. […] A snippet from an online chat at washingtonpost.com earlier this week featuring conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and his liberal counterpart, Ana Marie Cox: Hyattsville, Md.: Hello Tucker and Ana, In terms of budget, NASA is bigger than four federal departments (Commerce, Labor, Treasury, Interior). The White House hasn’t nominated anyone to be NASA’s boss. […] As previously noted, former congressman Nick Lampson is now rumored to be under consideration for the NASA administrator’s job. Lampson is in Colorado Springs for the National Space Symposium, so I asked him about those reports after a press conference by the Coalition for Space Exploration to announce its new board of advisors (which includes […] In her speech Thursday, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords also talked about going to the White House earlier this week to be a part of the teleconference Preisdent Obama had with the crews of the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station. Besides calling Obama “so fabulous”, she said that she believes that the president is […] Thursday morning Women in Aerospace hosted a breakfast at the Library of Congress featuring Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), chair of the space and aeronautics subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee. Much of her prepared remarks dealt with general space policy issues, as well as the need to get more women into the […] |
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