Apr 16, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
Having spent the day returning from covering the President’s speech in Florida, we are just catching up on reaction to it. Rather than reinvent the wheel, here are links to Jeff Foust’s roundup of congressional and other statements on...
Apr 15, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
Kennedy Space Center, FL – President Obama told an invitation-only audience at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) today that his plan for NASA will assure U.S. leadership in space is stronger in the 21st Century than it was in the last century. Saying that no one is...
Apr 15, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
UPDATE 2: The President is about to speak.UPDATE 1: President Obama, followed by Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D-FL), and then followed by NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, just came down the steps from Air...
Apr 15, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
UPDATE 3: The President’s speech is over and pretty much followed what was in the OSTP fact sheet two days ago. It seems to have been well received by the invitation-only audience. The NASA “conference” has begun as Norm Augustine is reviewing...
Apr 15, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
It’s been clear for many weeks that some sort of compromise would have to be worked out between Congress and the White House on the future of the human space flight program. The President’s plan, revealed as part of the FY2011 budget request, met a cold...
Apr 14, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
Anticipation continues to mount as April 15 and President Obama’s major space policy address nears. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and NASA each have issued fact sheets that are available on OSTP’s website. According to...
Apr 14, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
The International Space Education Institute of Leipzig, Germany and the University of Puerto Rico in Humacao claimed first place of their respective divisions in the 17th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race, NASA announced Saturday.
Apr 13, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
How did we ever get along without Twitter? And Tweeters like Jeff Foust from Spacepolitics.com, Miles O’Brien from This Week in Space, and NASA’s own Wayne Hale? Their tweets from the Space Foundation’s National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs...
Apr 13, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
Former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and a long list of former astronauts and retired NASA officials penned an open letter to President Obama warning that his new plan for NASA could “force as many as 30,000 irreplaceable engineers and managers out of...