Space Politics

The Associated Press has an article this morning about the Aldridge Commission’s final report, scheduled to be released Wednesday. The AP article largely focuses on the commission’s apparent recommendation that NASA hand over as many duties as possible to the private sector, including access to low Earth orbit (of course, the private sector already handles, […]

Wednesday’s issue of Aerospace Daily had an interesting article about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the first in a series of robotic lunar missions under the Vision for Space Exploration designed as precursors for human expeditions. What was most surprising is the proposed budget for the mission:

Funding for the LRO begins with $70 million […]

NPR’s Morning Edition had a segment Monday about the status of the Vision for Space Exploration, focusing on the lackluster support it seems to have garnered to date. There’s not much new in the report, and much of it was based on interviews and testimony from the Aldridge Commission’s final public hearing a month ago […]

An article in Thursday’s edition of the newspaper Newsday discusses the slow progress the Vision for Space Exploration has made in Congress since its introduction in mid-January. There’s not much in the article that has not been discussed elsewhere, but it’s a good overview of the status of the vision to date. Both Craig Steidle […]

This week’s issue of Space News has an article (not available online) about the AFL-CIO’s “America’s Priorities” web site that was previously discussed here. A spokesman from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)—a union that is a member of the AFL-CIO—said in the article that his union supported space exploration. Indeed, the […]