Gaffe-prone Gary Johnson says humans must inhabit other planets, NY Daily News “Gary Johnson might want to study up about Earth before worrying about other planets. The Libertarian Party presidential nominee — who earlier this month infamously failed to recognize the Syrian city of Aleppo during a nationally televised interview — said Sunday that the human race will ultimately be forced to live on other planets. “I mean, the plate […]

ScienceDebate2016 Answers, ScienceDebate.org “16. Space – There is a political debate over America’s national approach to space exploration and use. What should America’s national goals be for space exploration and earth observation from space, and what steps would your administration take to achieve them?” Hillary Clinton (D): “President Kennedy’s challenge in 1962 to go to the Moon within a decade electrified the nation, prompted a long period of American leadership […]

Keith’s note: Someone just sent this to me – they found it on a bulletin board at the NASA center where they work. For a moment, as I started to read it, I thought it was legit. Then it became clear that it was not. Then I looked at the date on the letter. Lets just say that this letter is not real but given the way that this election […]

Trump’s Campaign CEO Ran a Secretive Sci-Fi Project in the Arizona Desert, Mother Jones “Long before Stephen Bannon was CEO of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, he held a much different job – as the acting director of Biosphere 2, a $200 million scientific research facility in the mountains outside Tucson, Arizona. … Bannon left Biosphere 2 after two years, and the project was taken over by Columbia University. (It is […]

.@LamarSmithTX21, w/ support of @SenRonJohnson, issues subpoenas to Hillary Clinton’s private email server companies https://t.co/ianKTvfQWl — Sci,Space,&Tech Cmte (@HouseScience) August 22, 2016 What does this have to do with "Science, Space, Technology"? @LamarSmithTX21 has lost sight of cmte's true role. https://t.co/5HRqIoQErc — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 22, 2016

Marco Rubio declares support for NASA plan, calls on presidential nominees to do same, Florida Politics “Saying NASA needs long-range political assurances, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio declared broad backing for the space agency’s agenda Friday and called on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to do the same. Rubio met Friday with space industry representatives and others in a roundtable discussion organized by the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast […]

Challenge to presidential candidates: Debate about science, Washington Post “Climate change. Mental health. Space exploration. Vaccinations. The health of the oceans. Antibiotic-resistant superbugs. These are not the typical meat-and-potatoes topics of presidential debates. Often, the candidates and people who ask them questions skip over such topics entirely. But dozens of non-partisan groups that represent millions of scientists and engineers across the country are eager to change that. For the third […]

Coalition for Deep Space Exploration Member Futuramic Recognized by Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton, Coalition for Deep Space Exploration “The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration (Coalition) is pleased one of its members, Futuramic Tool & Engineering (Futuramic), was recognized yesterday by Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton as “being on the front lines of a manufacturing renaissance in America.” … Clinton referenced Futuramic’s role in the manufacturing of SLS stating the […]

Donald Trump, at a campaign stop in Daytona Beach, Fla., this afternoon, criticizes the “space program”: pic.twitter.com/nZ5Xwo8jvL — Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) August 3, 2016 Hey @jeff_foust Trump's comments about space look as if he delivered them as a pre-formatted word cloud pic.twitter.com/ENfZ6JkAz4 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 3, 2016

Donald Trump addresses NASA and new media in his first Reddit AMA, Tech Crunch “Asked by the same Redditor the role NASA should “play in helping to Make America Great Again,” he responded with, “Honestly I think NASA is wonderful! America has always led the world in space exploration,” echoing similar comments by Peter Thiel, whose recent Republican Convention address took issue with expenditures on war rather than space exploration, […]

Astronaut Mark Kelly “Thank you, everyone. I speak to you tonight as the proud son of two New Jersey cops; as a veteran of 39 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm and of 25 years in the United States Navy. And as a former NASA astronaut who flew four missions to space. My decades as a pilot, military officer, and astronaut gave me a unique perspective. From above, I saw […]

2016 Democratic Party Platform DRAFT July 1, 2016 Keith’s 7 July note: There is no mention of NASA or anything remotely close to space. No surprise. Platforms are just documents that are more focused on letting party people exercise their narrow interests than being close to anything that will ever really become a presidential administration’s future policies. Besides, space is a niche issue – at best – one that usually […]

Gabby & I are excited to speak at @DemConvention on Wed. about why @HillaryClinton will make our country safer. pic.twitter.com/zquyOLJaG2 — Mark Kelly (@ShuttleCDRKelly) July 21, 2016

Sorry, Eileen Collins: Here’s why America is already great in space, Ars Technica “But the public needs to recognize this as well, which is why I was disappointed by Collins and her pining for the Apollo era on such a big stage. The reality is that the best way to “lead on the frontier” in the 21st century is not through flags and footprints, but rather by sending people into […]

Federal investigators: Cabinet secretary and potential Clinton running mate Julian Castro violated Hatch Act, Washington Post “Housing Secretary Julian Castro violated the federal Hatch Act restricting partisan political activity by federal employees when he praised Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during an interview conducted from his government office, government investigators found Monday.” If next pres leaves NASA alone we get astronauts to @Space_Station on @Commercial_Crew + @NASA_SLS/@NASA_Orion & #JWST launches […]

Prepared Comments by Astronaut Eileen Collins Republican National Convention, RNC “We need leadership that will challenge every American to ask, “What’s next?” We need leadership that will make America’s space program first again. We need leadership that will make America first again. That leader is Donald Trump.” SU grad Eileen Collins skips Donald Trump mention in RNC speech, Syracuse.com “According to the prepared transcript of the speech, she was supposed […]

In announcing delegate counts Jeff Sessions mentions that Alabama is "home Of the Saturn V rocket that sent us to the Moon" #RNCinCLE — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) July 19, 2016

Republican Platform “The public-private partnerships between NASA, the Department of Defense, and commercial companies have given us technological progress that has reduced the cost of accessing space and extended America’s space leadership in the commercial, civil, and national security spheres. The entrepreneurship and innovation culture of the free market is revitalizing the nation’s space capabilities, saving taxpayer money, and advancing technology critical to maintain America’s edge in space and in […]

Keith’s 7 July update: A week Two weeks Three weeks ago I sent NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan (and NASA HQ PAO) a simple question about her statement regarding NASA’s value to America’s economy i.e.“there was a report that showed that for ever $1.00 you spend on NASA you get $4.00 returned to the economy”. NASA has still not gotten back to me with an answer. Either NASA refuses to […]