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Compare and contrast: first, an op-ed in Wednesday’s Orlando Sentinel by Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Barbara Mikulski, who put forward a standard set of arguments (we can’t trust the Russians, the Chinese are coming, etc.) to press for more money for NASA: However, once the international space station is complete, the U.S. will have […] Later this week the Air Force Academy’s Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies will be holding its annual National Space Forum in Washington, with this year’s topic being: “Space Challenges Facing the New American Administration of 2009″. In this week’s issue of The Space Review, Mike Snead offers some suggestions for discussions during the […] In this week’s issue of The Space Review I report on Mike Griffin’s defense of the current exploration architecture that he made in a speech last month. This is an expanded version of a post here on the speech, with a review of the logic that NASA followed under Griffin that led to the current […] On Tuesday President Bush signed a set of directives to improve the current export control process for items on the U.S. Munitions List. While this is being called “reform” in some quarters, it’s really more of an improvement of existing processes, as outlined in a State Department fact sheet: additional funding will be allocated for […] In an op-ed last week in the Los Angeles Times, former MirCorp CEO Jeffrey Manber argued that the US should allow China to participate in the International Space Station project. Allowing China to cooperate would have practical benefits (another means to access the ISS, another country to help pay for it), as well as political […] The radio show The Space Show features an interview today (5 pm EST) with former astronaut Jay Buckey, who was a payload specialist on the STS-90 shuttle flight in 1998 and is now a professor of medicine at Dartmouth. Besides that, though, Buckey is running for the US Senate from New Hampshire, seeking the Democratic […] Last week’s announcement that Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) was selling its space business to US firm Alliant Techsystems (ATK) has not gone over well in Canada. A former president of the Canadian Space Agency, Marc Garneau, decried the sale and blamed it in part on a lack of a national space policy […] Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has long had an interest in prizes for motivating advances in spaceflight, among other areas, and that interest is apparently still strong. In an interview with Human Events he had this to say about a Mars prize: I had a very senior member of the Air Force say […] Tiger Weekly, a publication serving the LSU community, talked with university chancellor and former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe about the space agency’s exploration plans. There’s not much here (he tells the reporter he likes the Vision for Space exploration, adding, “I’m biased, since I helped to fashion that new direction”), although he seems less concerned […] Today marks the fourth anniversary of the formal unveiling of the Vision for Space Exploration in a speech by President Bush at NASA Headquarters. In an article in this week’s issue of The Space Review, I discuss that we’re entering a critical year for the Vision, not just because of the uncertainty about who will […] |
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