Obama campaign could trip over space policy, Houston Chronicle Mike’s alternate universe fantasy: “Access to space should have been a campaign issue in every election since Nixon cancelled Apollo in the 1970s,” added Griffin, an adviser to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.” Vs reality: “You’d have to distort reality to make that a partisan issue in the fall campaign,” insists John Logsdon, a space historian and veteran of the Columbia […]

Ralph Hall gearing up for new role as chairman of House Science and Technology Committee “John M. Logsdon, a space policy expert at George Washington University, said Hall’s committee also will have to monitor NASA’s progress on a deep-space rocket and crew capsule that must be built by 2016. “I can say with a fair degree of assurance that NASA is finding it technically and financially difficult to meet some […]