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While Leroy Chiao will be on the ISS for the next six months, he won’t miss out on next month’s election. NASA announced Thursday that Chiao will vote electronically from the station, thanks to a provision passed by the Texas Legislature several years ago. He has even taped a public service announcement encouraging people back […] An article in Sunday’s Orlando Sentinel, a standard description why space has received so little attention in the Presidential campaign to date, does have one interesting tidbit. Jason Furman, Kerry’s economic policy director, suggests that a President Kerry would back some kind of Hubble repair mission: Kerry is supportive of extending the life of the […] Late last week, while most of official Washington was on vacation or at the RNC (or both), the Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the proposed budget for the Vision for Space Exploration. This is a pretty extensive analysis of the costs reported by NASA for the vision through 2020, and how these costs […] According to a brief article in this week’s print issue of Space News (which you may be able to temporarily read here), Congress has rejected a request by NASA to transfer some FY2004 money to the new Centennial Challenges program. According to the report, NASA had asked permission to transfer $2 million from an unspecified […] I chatted briefly yesterday with George Whitesides, the executive director of the NSS, who told me that about 40 people have signed up to participate in the Moon-Mars Blitz lobbying event in Washington later this month. That number close to the attendance the last year or two for ProSpace’s March Storm events, on which this […] An acquaintance pointed out at dinner last night that the public release of the Aldridge Commission’s final report will take place as preparations for the late President Reagan’s funeral approach their climax, and thus is in danger of being ignored. The day of the release and press conference, Thursday, is the same day Reagan’s body […] The folks at NASA have to be relieved that they now have the full support of the Senate… the Ohio Senate, that is. According to a NASA Glenn Research Center press release, the Ohio Senate unanimously approved a resolution “encouraging the United States Congress to support and fully fund NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration Program.” […] As noted here last week, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Houston-area Republican, plans to take a prominent role in supporting the Vision for Space Exploration by introducing a version of a NASA authorization bill that includes the President’s plan. DeLay is also speaking out more in support of the plan. Last week on Capitol […] The Senate resolution calling for an independent study of the SM4 cancellation decision, introduced Thursday afternoon, is now available as S. Res. 324. A quick comparison of it with the House version, H. Res. 550, shows what appear to be, primarily, only cosmetic differences. One interesting difference is that clause two of the Senate version […] This week’s issue of The Space Review has a couple of articles that will be of interest to readers. Dwayne Day has a very detailed look at the claims promulgated in the media that the new space initiative would cost $1 trillion. He went back through all the articles to find the very first time […] |
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