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NASA Administrator Mike Griffin was the keynote speaker Thursday morning at the annual Mars Society conference, held this year in Washington. His speech is available online, although he devoted most of his hour-long speaking slot to taking questions from the audience of about a couple hundred people. Some highlights: One of the first questions […] Just a brief note that I’m in Las Vegas for the next several days for the NewSpace 2006 conference, which will be taking up all of my time throught the weekend. As a result, don’t expect much activity here (unless there are some good policy-related sessions or related developments during the conference) until early next […] And no, it doesn’t appear to be an approaching train. Officials with Lockheed Martin and Boeing confirmed earlier this week that they have received a draft version of the FTC “consent decree” that would permit the formation of the United Launch Alliance, with conditions. The details of the consent decree haven’t been revealed, but according […] The site US Space News reported this weekend that the FTC has turned down the proposed United Launch Alliance merger of the Boeing and Lockheed Martin government EELV operations. These is no confirmation of this from any other source, including the FTC or either company, so this should be treated as an unverified rumor and […] Ronald Reagan looks out over Tom DeLay—literally, at the very least—during DeLay’s speech Thursday morning. Rep. Tom DeLay, just weeks away from his retirement from the House, was the speaker at a Space Transportation Association breakfast Thursday morning. His comments were brief, and largely looked back on the accomplishments that he, the Bush Administration, and […] On a table in the lobby of the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Los Angeles during the International Space Development Conference last weekend, I saw a sign next to flyers that had contact information for members of the House and Senate appropriations committees: So, when you restore cuts, do you add or take away money? It […] Marc Schlather, president of ProSpace, has responded to the Wired News article Wednesday that insinuated that the organization had paid lobbyists working to promote space weaponization. His letter to the editors of Wired News is reprinted below with his permission: […] A quick reminder that the full House Science Committee will be holding a hearing on Thursday at 10am on “NASA’s Science Mission Directorate: Impacts of the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Proposal”. (See this earlier post for the witness list.) Given all the attention focused on planned cutbacks in NASA’s science program, this should be an […] I normally don’t pay much heed to letters to the editor, but this one from a Mr. Weaver E. Gore, Jr., which appeared in Tuesday’s edition of the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, caught my eye: I notice that the government is sending a probe to Pluto at a cost of $700 million (“Unmanned NASA craft blasts […] The New Mexico state legislature will convene this week for a brief 30-day session where, among other things, legislators will be asked to support funding for a commercial spaceport in the southern part of the state, with space tourism operator Virgin Galactic as the anchor customer. When the Virgin Galactic agreement was announced last month […] |
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