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A Huntsville Times article about today’s release of the President’s FY07 budget proposal includes the following: “This year, the White House budget request is likely to be $439 billion for the Pentagon, about $13 billion for military construction, and about $17.9 billion for the NASA budget, the Associated Press has reported.” As noted as recently […] Efforts to win state approval for a New Mexico commercial spaceport took a step forward on Saturday when the state senate approved a measure that allows cities and counties to raise taxes to help pay for the facility. The measure, approved on a 36-2 vote, is intended to cover some of the costs of the […] The 2006 edition of the March Storm grassroots lobbying blitz is scheduled to begin in just over three weeks (given the timing of this year’s event, “February Blizzard” might be a more apt title.) In the online version of Ad Astra, the NSS magazine, ProSpace president Marc Schlather outlines the key items on this year’s […] Most of the attention to Boeing’s 2005 financial results released yesterday focused on the boffo results of its commercial airliner business. Still, one financial analyst thought to ask Boeing executives about the status of the United Launch Alliance, and got this response from Boeing CFO James Bell, according to this transcript provided by the Wall […] The successful launch of a remote sensing satellite might not seem like the type of event to trigger reflections on national space policy. Yet, in Japan, the launch last week of the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), or “Daichi”, generated some editorials expressing some optimism, yet also caution, about the Japanese space program. Both the […] Some updates about the status of various state space initiatives: Florida: Governor Jeb Bush’s proposal to spend $55 million in the next budget on space initiatives, including efforts to lure CEV work to the state and planning for a new commercial spaceport, have met with a mixed reaction from local newspaper editorial boards. The Orlando […] At last night’s premiere of the new IMAX movie Roving Mars at the National Air and Space Museum, NASM associate director Ted Maxwell noted that a few years ago the museum decided to retire To Fly!, the first IMAX movie the museum had shown, only to face criticism from museum patrons who specifically came to […] Thursday’s Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star features an op-ed by David Kerr, identified only as a “congressional aide”, that strongly endorses privatization of space exploration. After drawing analogies to the airmail efforts of the 1920s, Kerr cites SpaceShipOne as an example of the ingenuity and capabilities of smaller aerospace companies and then writes: That’s why America’s […] Marc Garneau, the first Canadian in space, lost his bid yesterday to win a seat in the House of Commons. Garneau, the Liberal candidate in the riding of Vaudreuil-Soulanges, west of Montreal, lost to incumbent Bloc Québécois candidate Meili Faille. Garneau finished second in the five-person race, well behind Faille. Garneau’s loss echoed that experienced […] Who knew that state space policies would become such a hot topic? Monday’s Los Angeles Times takes a look at Florida’s new plan to increase support of its space industry (as discussed here last week). The article primarily focuses on Florida’s efforts, and only late in the article does it bring up California’s activities—in part […] |
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