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There are a few, well, cranky people out there who don’t seem to care much for spending money on NASA. From today’s Durant (Okla.) Daily Democrat (“Gateway to Lake Texoma”), comes an essay by Harold Harmon, who seems to be having a bad day. Or week. Or longer: We’ve also decided that 2003 UB313 is […] Who knew that Canada was “a world leader in the militarisation of space”? That’s the claim made by an article on the web side of the New Socialist Group, a Canadian group for those people “who wish to replace global capitalism with a genuinely democratic socialism.” And how is Canada helping to militarize space? Through […] Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle signed legislation Friday that establishes the Wisconsin Aerospace Authority, the first step (maybe) towards the creation of a commercial spaceport in the state. However, as previously noted, the focus of the legislation is creating a vehicle for funneling federal dollars for the creation of a space science education center in Sheboygan. […] The Vision for Space Exploration often, and erroneously, gets distilled down to a “manned mission to Mars” in the media. In the political arena, it’s often also used in passing as a rhetorical tool against the administration—something that is not taken seriously. A couple of recent examples: Foreign Policy magazine, in a blog posting, reviews […] A few articles of note from this week’s issue of The Space Review: I recap a lot of the hubbub regarding a space race with China, and the comments made last week by Chinese space official Luo Ge in Washington. In particular, I note that while building up a space race with China could yield […] The University of California Berkeley issued a press release this week where several of the university’s scientists argued that planned cutbacks in NASA’s science budget would be detrimental not only to their research programs, but to the nation in general. One scientist quoted in the release, Robert Lin, tried to make it clear he wasn’t […] Checking in on Mr. Lasker You might recall a little over a month ago John Lasker wrote an article for Wired News about space weaponization. That generated a lot of controversy for its skewed portrayal of ProSpace, the grassroots space lobbying group, prompting a strong rebuttal from ProSpace and an eventual correction from Wired News, […] The Space Foundation issued a white paper Tuesday on the health of the nation’s space industrial base, with a particular focus on “sub-prime contractors”, those companies that perform work for the big aerospace companies. While recent studies have shown that the aerospace industry in general is in good shape, the Space Foundation paper notes that […] DeLay’s resignation announcement came less than a week after he issued a press release and participated in a House Appropriations Committee subcommittee hearing, warning that the US was engaged in a “space race” with China. As DeLay put it in his press release, “The advanced state of the Chinese space program represents a 21st century […] In this week’s issue of The Space Review, Taylor Dinerman takes The American Spectator to task for lumping NASA’s exploration vision in the same category as large federal programs like farm subsidies and Medicare prescription drug plans. (The article that Dinerman refers, which apparently only refers to NASA in passing, to doesn’t appear to be […] |
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