Events of Interest: Week of July 11-15, 2011
The following events may be of interest in the coming week. For more information, see our calendar on the right menu or click the links below. The House and Senate both are in session this week.
During the Week
Two key events on the Hill are expected this week for NASA. On Tuesday, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on the Space Launch System that Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act. Recent rumors were that NASA would announce the design of the system before the final launch of the space shuttle, but the launch came and went with no announcement. On Wednesday, the full House Appropriations Committee will mark up the FY2012 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill and agree or not with the recommendations of its CJS subcommittee. Those recommendations include a substantial cut to NASA’s FY2012 budget request and termination of the James Webb Space Telescope.
The full House Appropriations Committee will mark up the Interior-Environment appropriations bill on Tuesday. It will have to agree or not with the recommendations from the Interior-Environment subcommittee, which include denying the funding requested by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to take over the Landsat program from NASA.
Tuesday, July 12
- House Science, Space and Technology hearing on NASA’s Space Launch System, 2318 Rayburn, 10:00 am EDT
- House Appropriations Committee mark up of the FY2012 Interior-Environment appropriations bill (includes USGS), 2359 Rayburn, 10:30 am EDT
Wednesday, July 13
- House Appropriations Committee mark up of the FY2012 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill (includes NASA and NOAA), 2359 Rayburn, 10:00 am EDT
Wednesday-Thursday, July 13-14
- NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Astrophysics Subcommittee meeting, NASA Headquarters room 5H45
- July 13, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm EDT
- July 14, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm EDT
Friday, July 15
- NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) meeting, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
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