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Rep. Frank Wolf and Five Others Will Call on Bolden for 30 Day Study PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marcia Smith   
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:08
Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA), ranking member of the House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee and five other Republican Congressmen tomorrow will hold a press conference calling for NASA Administrator Bolden to appoint a team to report back before President Obama's April 15 "space conference" on how to maintain uninterrupted human access to space.
 
 
No Painfree Options -- "Deal With It" -- Says XCOR's Greason PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marcia Smith   
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:23

Saying he was neither attacking nor defending the Obama Administration's new plan for NASA, Jeff Greason said that there are no good options: "They all suck.  Tough.  Deal with it."   Mr. Greason is President of XCOR and was a member of the Augustine committee on the future of the human space flight program.  He spoke at the American Astronautical Society's Goddard Memorial Symposium today.

 
"Obama May Need Heat Shield At Space Summit" Says AOL News PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marcia Smith   
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 16:08
Traci Watson, a reporter formerly with USA Today and now with AOL News, notes in an article today that April 15 -- tax day -- seems an odd time for the President to hold his "space conference" in Florida and start a campaign to convince taxpayers to spend billions of dollars on the space program.  "Obama's proposals may face a climb as steep as a rocket's trajectory to orbit, and that's not just because taxpayers could get surly at the idea of more federal spending."
 
Advice to Obama From Senator Bill Nelson PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marcia Smith   
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 11:50

Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) offered President Obama a lot of advice about what he should say at the April 15 "space conference" the White House is planning for April 15 in Florida.   In a speech on the Senate floor yesterday (pages S1254-1256), he reiterated many of the concerns he expressed during a Feburary 24 hearing.  Basically he feels there are many good elements of the FY2011 budget request, but he faults the roll-out of the request as creating the misperception that President Obama is killing the U.S. human spaceflight program.   He sees the April 15 conference as the President's opportunity to clarify and amplify his position, for example by explcitly saying that human exploration of Mars is the goal, perhaps with intermediate stops along the way.   He urges the President to:

 
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