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No doubt many of you noticed the Reuters article published Friday that cited a Chinese source who claimed that China was planning a manned lunar mission by 2017. There are a number of flaws in the article: it was published in a relatively minor publication, the “Southern Metropolis News”, and cited a Chinese scientist, Ouyang […] Yes, there is a connection, however tenuous it may be. The Republican challenger to Robert “Bob” Hull, a Democrat who represents the 38th District (covering a portion of Fairfax County in northern Virginia) in the House of Delegates, is B. Leland Cheung, who the Washington Post describes as a “space tourism entrepreneur”. The term “entrepreneur” […] Last night the National Air and Space Museum hosted a screening of the upcoming PBS documentary “Race to the Moon” about the Apollo 8 mission. In attendance at the event were the three astronauts from that mission: Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders. During a Q&A session after the screening, someone asked the three […] Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta apparently thinks that President Bush doesn’t get enough credit for promoting commercial spaceflight. Mineta, speaking at the COMSTAC meeting yesterday, said, “I admit that I am a bit surprised about how little is known about how the Bush Administration is enabling commercial space.” As examples, he pointed to the Vision […] A few policy-related articles of note in this week’s issue of The Space Review: I take a look at some of the opposition to the ESAS report from the space advocacy community, including comments made by Rick Tumlinson and Robert Zubrin at the Space Frontier Conference on Friday in LA. Zubrin wants the shuttle program […] Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), whom you might remember took on the Vision for Space Exploration this past summer, now has a new target: Air Force space policy. In a press release today, CAGW takes issue with plans for the formation of the United Launch Alliance (ULA), the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture to manufacture EELVs […] On a couple of occasions in recent weeks people have come up to me and asked how I keep the comments section of this blog so lively—only sometimes they replace “lively” with “nasty”. While it’s great that this blog has attracted this much interest, I have become increasingly concerned about the level of discourse in […] Who knew naming a street after an astronaut would be so difficult? That’s the gist of a Burlington (Iowa) Hawk Eye article about a city council meeting in that small Mississippi River city that took up the issue of renaming a street after STS-114 pilot, and Burlington native, Jim Kelly. The council seemed all set […] A front-page article in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle provides a detailed overview of some of the issues associated with the field of space law. Keay Davidson talks with many of the major players involved in the field, from Greg Nemitz (who tried and failed to get NASA to pay a “landing fee” for its NEAR […] The Russian news agencies Interfax and RIA Novosti both report that the Russian Foreign Ministry has submitted a draft resolution to the UN regarding “transparency and confidence-building measures in space exploration”. Interfax quotes a ministry statement as follows: [T]he development of a set of transparency and confidence-building measures regarding space exploration by the international community […] |
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