Last week, we carried the news that several Nobel laureates had written a letter to House Science & Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon to express their support for the President’s proposed changes to the nation’s human space flight program and to state their opposition to the Committee’s bill that would largely ignore those proposals. If [...]
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AmericaSpace Note: No sooner had we published, tongue-in-cheek, a post on a possible reality distortion field affecting NASA headquarters, conceding that it could just be a mixture of the D.C. water and being 9 stories up, when this email flopped over the transom. If the title NASA Announces Commercial Crew Initiative Forum isn’t evidence of [...] From the Associated Press, A plane carrying nine people crashed amid southwest Alaska’s remote mountains and lakes, killing five people on board, authorities said Tuesday. Former Sen. Ted Stevens and ex-NASA chief Sean O’Keefe were believed to be aboard. A U.S. government official told the AP that Alaska authorities [...] Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 5781, the NASA Authorization Act of 2010. H.R. 5781 puts this country back on track to remain the world’s leader in human space flight. It provides for a continued strong, robust human space program at NASA and reverses the proposed outsourcing of that program. And it provides loan [...] We just noticed this on SpacePolicyOnline.com. Congress Sends FY2010 Supplemental to the President, Constellation Language Included Just a bit of more bad news for those hoping that Congress might not derail the Obama Administration’s proposed outsourcing of NASA’s human space flight program. “Congress passed the FY2010 supplemental appropriations bill (H.R. 4899) and sent it to the [...] SpacePolitics.com has posted that HR 5781 has passed the House Science & Technology Committee. If the Senate version that was voted out of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is the “good cop”, then HR 5781 is the “bad cop” to the White House’s attempt to end NASA’s human space flight program. It will be [...] Excellent coverage of today’s events in the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Science, Transportation & Commerce can be found at Marcia Smith’s Space Policy Online, Senate Committee Approves NASA Authorization Bill FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit This in from Marcia Smith’s Space Policy Online, Senate Commerce Committee to Mark Up NASA Authorization Bill on Thursday, July 15. In short, it appears that the beginning of the end comes tomorrow afternoon for plans by the White House to have our nation’s space agency exit human space flight, as outlined in the Administration’s [...] Washington, the City of Self, where the Golden Rule is…”If you want a friend, buy a dog“, never ceases to amaze. According to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, as reported by the AP in The Associated Press: White House denies NASA remark on Muslim outreach, NASA Administrator General Charles Bolden was never given instructions [...] MrSpaceGeek has posted a video of the Obama Administration’s space plan, its possible genesis from advisors to the Augustine Commission, and reaction to it by Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong. But the movie isn’t just a screed against the Obama Administration; the Bush Administration also gets honorable mention for underfunding by $12 billion the very [...] |
Earl and Fiona
 This image from the GOES-13 satellite, taken at 10:32 a.m. EDT on Sept. 3, shows a huge Hurricane Earl northeast of North Carolina with cloud cover stretching over the northeastern U.S. A disorganized Tropical Storm Fiona is located in the bottom right of this image. Image Credit: NASA/NOAA Goes Project Read More |
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