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During a briefing after President Bush’s meeting with Chinese President Hu, Dennis Wilder, Acting Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council, threw in a few words at the end of his opening statement about US-China space cooperation: The President, in the area of trying to deepen the relationship between our two societies […] Yesterday President Bush paid a visit to the Parkland Magnet Middle School for Aerospace Technology in Rockville, Maryland (just a few miles from where I live, as it turns out). While at the school, he gave a speech on the American Competitiveness Initiative. He even mentioned to drop NASA’s name twice, although not in any […] The crew of the STS-114 shuttle mission paid a visit to the White House Wednesday, getting their picture taken with President Bush in the Oval Office. Don’t worry if you didn’t hear about it: NASA didn’t publicize the event in advance, issuing a brief press release late yesterday after the event. Likewise, the only evidence […] One of the major programs announced both at the President’s State of the Union address and with the release of the FY07 budget proposal last week was something called the American Competitiveness Initiative, which is designed, according to an OMB fact sheet, “to double funding for high-leverage research emphasizing the physical sciences that will provide […] White House press secretary Scott McClellan held a “press gaggle” on Air Force One Thursday morning as the President was travelling to Minnesota. A guest of the informal press briefing was presidential science advisor John Marburger, who was there to answer questions about the science initiatives unveiled in the State of the Union address. An […] To no one’s surprise, President Bush’s State of the Union address Tuesday night made no mention of the Vision for Space Exploration or space policy in general. The closest he came was this promise to double federal funding of “basic research” efforts: First, I propose to double the federal commitment to the most critical basic […] The Federation of American Scientists has posted a copy of the memo from OSTP director John Marburger from late last month that authorized NASA to develop a free-flyer Landsat spacecraft in place of including a Landsat-type instrument on the NPOESS spacecraft. Most of the details of the decision in the two-page memo were covered in […] The White House announced today that President Bush has signed into law HR 2863, the DOD appropriation bill (which includes supplemental funding for hurricane relief) and S. 1281, the NASA authorization bill. Jim Muncy passed along to me earlier today an interesting bit about HR 2863, which provides NASA with $350 million to begin repairs […] It’s official: the President signed into law yesterday both HR 2862, the appropriations bill that includes NASA, and S.1713, the Iran Nonproliferation Amendments Act of 2005, which allows NASA to purchase ISS hardware and services from Russia. Today’s issue of the Washington Examiner, a free DC-area newspaper, fires a shot across the bow of the Vision for Space Exploration in an editorial. Decrying the “almost Ahab-like obsession exhibited by many with regard to space travel to the moon and, ultimately, Mars”, the editorial claims that there is no support for the VSE […] |
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