Space Policy Events for February 24-28, 2014
The following events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate both are in session.
During the Week
It’s another comparatively slow week as everyone eagerly awaits the release of the FY2015 budget request a week from now (March 4). In the meantime, perhaps the most interesting event this week is the House Science, Space and Technology Committee’s hearing on “Mars Flyby 2021: The First Deep Space Mission for the Orion and Space Launch System?” on Thursday. As far as we know, there is no launch opportunity to Mars in 2021 — they occur only every 26 months and there’s one in 2020 and another in 2022, so we will see what someone has in mind for 2021. There is an interesting group of very knowledgable witnesses.
That and other events we know of at the moment are listed below.
Monday, February 24
- Research Subcommittee of the Human Exploration and Operations Committee of the NASA Advisory Council, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm ET
Tuesday, February 25
- SASC Hearing on DOD Nominations Including DepSecDef and Comptroller, G-50 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, 9:30 am ET
Wednesday, February 26
- AIAA National Capital Section luncheon featuring NASA’s Bill Gerstenmaier, Army Navy Country Club, Arlington, VA, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm ET
- NASA Media Telecon on Recent Discoveries from Kepler Space Telescope, virtual, 1:00 pm ET
Thursday, February 27
- House SS&T Cmte Hrg on “Mars Flyby 2021: First Deep Space Mission for Orion/SLS?”, 2318 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, 10:00 am ET
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