House Appropriations Chair Obey To Retire
Representative David Obey (D-WI) will announce this afternoon that he will retire at the end of this session of Congress according to Congress Daily (subscription required).  Obey is one of the most powerful men in Congress as chair of the House Appropriations...SSB to Look at Grand Philosophical Questions Addressed by NASA; Public Invited
The National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Space Studies Board (SSB) is planning a two-and-a-half day workshop in November to look at how NASA addresses the “grand philosophical questions people care about.”  Writing in the most recent edition of...President Establishes Task Force on Space Industry Workforce and Economic Development
President Obama today created a Task Force on Space Industry Workforce and Economic Development for Florida’s Space Coast as promised in his April 15 speech at Kennedy Space Center, FL.Events of Interest: Week of May 3-7, 2010
The following events may be of interest in the coming week.  Check our calendar on the right menu for more information or click the links below. Congressional hearings and markups are subject to change; check the committee’s website for up to date...Radzanowski Replaces Whitesides as NASA Chief of Staff
NASA announced this afternoon that Dave Radzanowski will replace George Whitesides as NASA’s Chief of Staff.  In addition, James Stofan was named acting Associate Administration for Education. The announcement follows:ÂHuntress: Constellation Neither Inspirational Nor Challenging, New Plan is “Sensible”
In an interview with Jim Oberg for IEEE Spectrum, Wes Huntress praised President Obama’s new plan for human spaceflight. The Constellation program, he said, was “neither inspirational nor sufficiently challenging for a space program as storied as...CSIS Seeks Input — Quickly — on National Security and Commercial Space
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a draft report today and is seeking input from the space community before finalizing its findings and recommendations.   “National Security and the Commercial Space Sector” looks at the...Astrobiology Central to the Future of Planetary Exploration Says Cornell’s Steve Squyres
Cornell University’s Steve Squyres said at a NASA teleconference yesterday that the future of planetary exploration is “driven” by astrobiology and the search for life on other celestial bodies.Bolden Urges JSC Workers to Look to the Future, Not the Past
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden called on workers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) to “look to the possibilities and opportunities available as we continue our 21st century march beyond our home planet” in an “all hands” meeting...Space Talk
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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