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The President’s Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy (hereafter the “Aldridge commission”) has scheduled its first public hearing for Wednesday, but the commission is already at work. SPACE.com reported Monday that the commission was scheduled to meet Monday somewhere in Virginia for a closed-door meeting. That tidbit came from an interview with […] In many fields—the computing industry in particular—there is something known as FUD: fear, uncertainty, and doubt. It’s propaganda usually provided by one company, sometimes only loosely based on the facts, designed to raise doubts among a wider audience about a competing company’s product. For example, proponents of the Linux operating system often claim that they […] The first meeting of the President’s Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy (aka the “Aldridge Commission”) has been scheduled for this coming Wednesday, February 11, in Washington, according to a notice published in Thursday’s Federal Register. (See also an HTMLized version at SpaceRef.com.) The meeting is scheduled for between 9am and 5pm […] Reading Wednesday’s issue of the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill, I noticed an unusual ad in the back, alongside those for apartments and jobs. The “1st Annual Exopolitics Expo – April ’04”, the ad announced. “Perhaps the most important conference you will ever attend.” Exopolitics… hmmm, sounds like it might be related to space. I […] As has been widely noted, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, were in the control room at JPL during the landing of Opportunity. (We trust that controllers followed the advice of a recent Opus cartoon and made sure the governor stayed away from the controls.) Also present were former Vice-President Al Gore […] Sunday’s Albany Times-Union published an article based on a poll of people who live in the “Capital Region” of New York state. That poll showed considerable skepticism about Bush’s space initiative: 48% oppose the plan compared to 40% in favor. Moreover, 52% said that Bush was pushing this new plan primarily for political reasons; 21% […] After reading this CounterPunch.org article, you have to wonder if some people are actually hoping Spirit won’t be revived, for no reason other than blunt the president’s new space initiative… NASA’s decision last Friday to scrap the last shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope has generated its fair share of controversy, and now a degree of political attention. On Wednesday Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) sent a letter to NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe, asking him to appoint an independent panel to review his decision to […] Former Vice President Al Gore criticized the new Bush space initiative in a speech in New York on Thursday, Reuters reported. A quote from the article: “Instead of spending enormous sums of money on an unimaginative and retread effort to make a tiny portion of the moon habitable for a handful of people, we should […] An AP article this morning suggests that the President will ask for far less for NASA than earlier reports indicated: $1 billion over five years, as opposed to 5% budget increases per year over five years, which give a total increase of a little over $12 billion over that time. See this Spacetoday.net summary for […] |
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