What's Happening in Space Policy February 23-27, 2015
Here is our list of space policy related events for the week of February 23-27, 2015 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session this week.
During the Week
This is one of those weeks when so much is going on that it’s difficult to choose just a couple of events to highlight. Please peruse the list below to find your own favorites.
There are seven congressional hearings of interest to the space policy community, though one suspects two are of particular note to readers of this website: Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the U.S. human spaceflight program and commercial space competitiveness (with three former astronauts, including Buzz Aldrin), and Friday’s House hearing on NASA’s commercial crew program.
But the others should be of interest, too: Wednesday’s House hearing with the NASA Inspector General (and his counterparts at the Departments of Commerce and Justice) and hearings on the FY2016 budget requests for the Department of Transportation (including the Office of Commercial Space Transportation), Air Force (where many national security space programs reside), and the Department of Commerce (home of NOAA). Many congressional hearings are webcast (though usually not the ones held in the U.S. Capitol), so you can enjoy them live or later in archived webcasts. We’ll provide summaries of as many of them as we can.
Tuesday, February 24
- NOAA Budget Briefing on FY2016 Request, Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC, 12:30-2:30 pm ET (available by telephone)
- Senate Commerce Subcommittee Hearing on US Human Exploration Goals and Commercial Space Competitiveness, 253 Russell, 2:00 pm ET
Tuesday-Wednesday, February 24-25
- MEPAG, Monrovia, CA
Wednesday, February 25
- US Spacewalk from ISS (2nd of 3), 7:10 am ET
- NSS/SFF Announcement of New Space Alliance, 2325 Rayburn, 10:00 am ET
- House Appropriations CJS Subcommittee Hearing on NASA (and Departments of Justice and Commerce) Oversight, H-309 Capitol, 10:30 am ET
Thursday, February 26
- Senate Appropriations CJS Subcommittee Hearing on Department of Commerce (incl NOAA) FY2016 Budget Request, 192 Dirksen, 10:30 am ET
- House Appropriations T-HUD Subcommittee Hearing on Department of Transportation (incl FAA) FY2016 Budget Request, 2358-A Rayburn, 1:00 pm ET
- House Armed Services Subcommittee Hearing on FY2016 Budget Request for Strategic Forces, 2118 Rayburn, 2:00 pm ET
Friday, February 27
- House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Hearing on Air Force FY2016 Budget Request, H-140 Capitol, 9:00 am ET
- House SS&T Subcommittee Hearing on NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, 2318 Rayburn, 9:00 am ET
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