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As the previous post noted, space exploration isn’t a high priority among the British public. Yet, they certainly like to talk about space policy. The BBC reported this week that the British government is planning a “major revamp” of its space policy, including reorganizing and relocating its space office. The British National Space Centre (BNSC) […] This blog has noted on a number of occasions, to the consternation of hardcore space advocates, that space ranks pretty low on the list of priorities of the general public (and, thus, fairly high on the list of government programs they would be willing to cut). Another reminder of this came out earlier this month, […] The planned sale of the space division of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) to Alliant Techsystems (ATK) has hit a roadblock that is unprecedented but not necessarily surprising. The deal required the approval of the Canadian government since MDA is a Canadian company and ATK is an American one, but this week Industry Minister Jim […] While Rep. Dave Weldon is using this week’s release of a report predicting thousands of job losses at the Kennedy Space Center when the shuttle is retired as another reason to extend the shuttle’s life, a couple of major newspapers in the region have called for a different type of legislative relief. In editorials published […] In an op-ed published Tuesday in the Capitol Hill newspaper Politico, Scott “Doc” Horowitz, the former astronaut and former NASA associate administrator for exploration, called on both Republicans and Democrats to formally support space exploration in their party platforms. “Americans’ support for building on the ‘greatest generation’s’ achievements in space is so broad and deep […] At the Space Access ’08 conference in Phoenix on Friday, Charles Miller, a member of the board of directors of the Space Frontier Foundation, gave a presentation with a provocative title: “The Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) and the Retirement of the Baby Boomers: Is this the Beginning of the End? or The End of […] As a counterpoint to the recent Houston Chronicle op-ed about the need to “stay the course” on the exploration program or else lose out to the Chinese, among other recent statements that have suggested that the US is in danger of falling behind to the Chinese in human spaceflight, a reader passed along this China […] The Planetary Society announced this week that it is holding the first in a series of “town hall” meetings on space policy this Saturday in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. The society is billing this event as the “public follow-up” to the Stanford University exploration workshop last month, which endorsed human exploration with the […] The Canadian government on Thursday delayed for 30 days a decision on approving the sale of the space business of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) to US company Alliant Techsystems (ATK). The $1.3-billion deal was announced in January, and Industry Canada had until Saturday to approve the deal, but exercised its right to extend that […] In his prepared remarks Thursday at the Goddard Memorial Symposium, presidential science advisor John Marburger covered some of the same ground as he did in his speech there two years ago, where he said the debate over the Vision for Space Exploration was, at its core, “whether we want to incorporate the Solar System in […] |
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