Reaction to President Obama's Speech

Having spent the day returning from covering the President’s speech in Florida, we are just catching up on reaction to it. Rather than reinvent the wheel, here are links to Jeff Foust’s roundup of congressional and other statements on Spacepolitics.com and to Keith Cowing’s on NASAWatch.

Based on a quick read, it looks as though the speech did not change the dynamics of the debate very much among those who have been commenting on it all along. Still to be heard from, though, are key congressional players like the chairs of the House and Senate appropriations subcommittees that fund NASA (Rep. Alan Mollohan and Sen. Barbara Mikulski), the ranking member of the House appropriations subcommittee (Rep. Frank Wolf), and the chair of the House Science and Technology Committee (Rep. Bart Gordon) and its Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee (Rep. Gabrielle Giffords). Sen. Mikulski will hold a hearing on NASA this coming week (April 22).