Given the feedback from my last multimedia effort (translation: no one complained), I’ve uploaded the audio from Wednesday’s STA breakfast with Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (MP3, 21:03, 2.4 MB). Enjoy!
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Given the feedback from my last multimedia effort (translation: no one complained), I’ve uploaded the audio from Wednesday’s STA breakfast with Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (MP3, 21:03, 2.4 MB). Enjoy! As an experiment, I’m making available here recordings from some recent space policy-related events. I’ve started with a couple of breakfast events: a speech by OSTP associate director Richard Russell on commercial space transportation policy on February 9, and a speech by Rep. Tom Feeney on China’s space program on February 16: Richard Russell (30:58, […] On Wednesday Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) director John Holdren appeared at a hearing of the Commerce, Justice, and Science subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. The hearing was held in a location without webcasting capabilities, so there was limited coverage of the event. Those reports, though, suggest that a battle may be […] Later this morning a Delta 2 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying the Aquarius/SAC-D earth sciences satellite to orbit. That mission, designed to study ocean salinity and its effect on global climate, has not been immune to the delays that affect many satellite programs: it was originally […] Despite the SpaceX’s successful Dragon test flight last week, the incoming chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee remains skeptical about relying on commercial providers for supplying and accessing the International Space Station. In a Dallas Morning News article Monday, Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX), who will take over the committee next month, said he […] A space program suffering from long-running problems, including schedule delays and cost overruns, is radically reshaped in the FY 2011 budget proposal announced Monday. And hardly anyone notices. Obviously, we’re not talking about Constellation. Instead, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Satellite System (NPOESS) underwent a shakeup in the budget proposal, right down to its name: it’s […] As many people suspected, the president did not mention space policy or NASA specifically during his State of the Union speech tonight. (The closest item relevant to space policy was a passing reference to “reform export controls consistent with national security”, an always-hot topic for the commercial space industry.) Less than an hour after he […] On Friday Congressmen Ron Klein (D-FL) and Charlie Melancon (D-LA) introduced HR 3654, the Hurricane Satellite Modernization Act. The bill would authorize $3 billion for NASA and NOAA in fiscal years 2010 through 2027 (!!) to build and launch a series of spacecraft called the Extended Ocean Vector Winds Mission (XOVWM, an acronym that looks […] Last week the Senate Commerce Committee held a nomination hearing for John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco, the nominees for director of OSTP and administrator of NOAA, respectively. In his opening statement (in both written and verbal forms) Holdren mentioned space as a critical area of investment in science and engineering: In today’s time of […] It would seem to be a little late in the legislative season to introduce a new bill, but earlier this week Congressmen Ron Klein (D-FL) and Charlie Melancon (D-LA) introduced the Hurricane Satellite Modernization Act. The legislation, according to a Klein press release (the bill is not yet available through Thomas), would authorize the development […] |
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