Space Policy Events for January 27-31, 2014
The following space policy events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate are in session.
During the Week
President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. There are no rumors that the space program will figure in his speech, but anything is possible. Tuesday is, after all, the 28th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger tragedy.
In fact, this is the week that commemorates the loss of the Apollo 1 crew on January 27, 1967; the Challenger crew on January 28, 1986; and the space shuttle Columbia crew on February 1, 2003. NASA and the Air Force will hold a ceremony tomorrow (Monday) at Launch Complex 34 to remember the Apollo 1 crew and NASA will hold its annual Day of Remembrance for all three crews on Friday according to Florida Today (we could find no mention of these events on NASA HQ or Kennedy Space Center websites, so don’t have any other details).
Apart from that, perhaps the most notable event coming up this week is Tuesday’s hearing before two subcommittees of the House Armed Services Committee on China’s counterspace program. Bob Butterworth from Aries Analytics, Michael Krepon from the Stimson Center, and Ashley Tellis from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace are the witnesses — 3:30 pm ET, 2118 Rayburn (and via webcast at the committee’s website).
Here’s the list of everything we know about as of Sunday afternoon.
Monday, January 27
- Space Transportation Association luncheon with Bill Wrobel, Dale Nash and Carl Walz, 2325 Rayburn, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm ET (RSVPs were required by Friday)
- NASA media teleconference on Lunar CATALYST initiative, virtual, 12:30 pm ET
- NASA-JAXA pre-launch press conference on Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory mission, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 1:00 pm ET
Tuesday, January 28
- HASC hearing on China’s Counterspace Program, 2118 Rayburn, 3:30 pm ET
- State of the Union Address, U.S. Capitol, 9:00 pm ET
Tuesday-Wednesday, January 28-29
- 6th Conference on European Union Space Policy, Brussels, Belgium
Thursday, January 29
- Senate HELP Committee Nominations Markup, including France Cordova to be Director of the National Science Foundation, 430 Dirksen, 10:00 am ET
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