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With Congress just now returning from its summer recess, it’s been a relatively quiet time (at least in public) on domestic space policy issues, outside of the COTS and Orion contract awards, so it’s a good time to see what sort of debates and developments are taking place outside the US on space issues: In […] With all the hubbub in the last week about the decision by the International Astronomical Union to “demote” Pluto to the lesser status of “dwarf planet”, you probably feared that, at some point, politicians would get involved. You were right. A resolution introduced in the California State Assembly hours after the IAU’s decision last Thursday, […] I neglected to mention earlier this week Chris Carberry’s article in this week’s issue of The Space Review about the recent “Mars Blitz” on Capitol Hill on August 3, when over 100 Mars Society conference attendees spent the afternoon briefing Congressional offices. “The reaction from Congress was what I can only call ‘freakishly’ positive,” Carberry […] The RAND Corporation this week released a report by the National Security Space Launch Requirements Panel that evaluated the status of the EELV program and military launch efforts in general. (The panel was mandated by a provision of the FY05 defense authorization bill.) The panel’s overarching conclusion is that, from a technical standpoint, the two […] Next month the state of Washington will hold party primaries for the US Senate seat currently held by Maria Cantwell. There are several people competing against Cantwell in the Democratic primary (although she is very much the frontrunner), one of whom is Michael Goodspaceguy Nelson. That’s right, Michael Goodspaceguy Nelson. Mr. Nelson, a former Libertarian […] A disagreement involving risk associated with investments in two space companies has apparently caused the state of New Mexico and an investment firm to part ways, the Albuquerque Journal reported Sunday. (The site requires a subscription, although a Salon-like ad-supported day pass is available; otherwise, the text of the article is available here.) According to […] Robert Bigelow is best known in space circles as the founder of Bigelow Aerospace, developer of inflatable space habitats, but in his home state of Nevada he’s also a significant political donor. An AP article reports that Bigelow has contributed about one quarter of the money raised this year by Bob Beers, a state senator […] As you’re no doubt aware, James Van Allen passed away yesterday at the age of 91. Van Allen was an exemplary scientist, best known for the discovery of the radiation belts surrounding the Earth that bear his name. That discovery was made using instruments he flew on Explorer 1, the first US spacecraft to orbit […] In the latest in an irregular series of “space polcasts”, I’ve created an MP3 of Mike Griffin’s speech and Q&A session at last week’s Mars Society conference in Washington. (The file is approx. 6.45 MB and runs a little over 56 minutes, including a brief introduction from Robert Zubrin.) Sunday’s edition of the Cumberland (Md.) Times-News promised a “faceoff” between two newspaper staffers on hoary question of whether space exploration should be done by humans or robots. If you’re looking for insightful commentary on the (space) age-old question, keep looking. The pro-robot argument reads as much like an attack on President Bush as a […] |
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