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That’s the title of a report issued this week by the Select Committee on Science and Technology of the British Parliament. The report makes a number of recommendations about the direction the UK should take in space policy. I have not had the opportunity yet to go through the entire report, but some of the […] Maybe you should at least take them with a grain of salt. Take this Kiplinger.com article about NASA’s post-shuttle future, including the question of funding for the space agency: The earliest the new lunar missions could conceivably take place would be in 2020. But again, competing budget pressures are likely to push back that timetable. […] Who would have thought that Mel Martinez, the Republican Senator from Florida, once coached baseball with anti-war, anti-nuclear, anti-space-weaponization activist Bruce Gagnon? Well, that’s what Gagnon claims in an essay today on OpEdNews.com: “We coached our sons baseball team together back in the early 1990’s in Orlando. I got hit in a car crash once […] Given the chatter associated with the most recent post, it appears it’s time for your regular admonishment about appropriate comments. Rather than repeat myself, I’ll just point to some previous posts on proper decorum. All I’ll add is that I am taking additional steps to improve the signal-to-noise ratio in the comments. Thanks for your […] During a recent trip to a bookstore I checked out Al Gore’s latest book, The Assault on Reason. Was there anything in this wide-ranging book about space policy, perchance? There’s no entry in the index for NASA, but there is one for “Space, militarization of” (wedged in alphabetical order between Socrates and Stalin, Joseph). Gore […] A couple of events this week on international space policy issues: The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is hosting tonight “A New Space Race? Chinese and American Plans for War and Peace in Orbit and Beyond”. If you’re not in Denver, you can watch a free live webcast of the event starting at 7 […] Today’s USA Today features an op-ed by John Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy, expressing concern that other countries “are starting to leave us in the dust” in space exploration “while U.S. special interest groups quibble over NASA’s faults.” His argument is that several countries, including China, India, Japan, and Russia, are accelerating their efforts […] Mark Whittington (an occasional commenter on this blog) has an op-ed in Sunday’s Houston Chronicle advocating an alternative approach to NASA’s robotic lunar exploration plans. Rather than NASA design, develop, and operate a lunar lander mission (something that has been indefinitely delayed in part because of the agency’s overall budget crunch), he argues that NASA […] A reader noted that a comment he posted earlier in the day had not appeared. It turns out the Akismet spam filter used by this blog (and many others) is a little overzealous, and has categorized a number of legitimate comments as spam. My apologies. Until the filter problems can be corrected, I would request […] Imagine my surprise this weekend as I read the “50 Ways to Space Out” article in the latest issue of Air & Space magazine and came across this entry: 37 READ SPACE POLITICS, the Space Age’s version of the Drudge Report, because “sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway.” Visit spacepolitics.com. I’m flattered… I […] |
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