Space Community Braces For Another U.S. Transition, Aviation week “White House staffers have told reporters Obama wants to leave his successor “a clean barn” without the financial and foreign policy troubles he inherited. Although civil spaceflight has not been a White House priority under Obama, Bolden is trying to emulate the clean-barn pattern at NASA.”

Keith’s note: Charlie Bolden held his SES summit the other day. This time it was done virtually so as to save travel funds. 400-500 people were on the telecon from across the agency. According to participants, at one point Bolden was asked a question about the election and what he thought as a political appointee. Bolden replied “I do not see myself as a Democratic political appointee.” He then went […]

NASA no priority for most presidential candidates, Orlando Sentinel “Of all the presidential candidates, the election of Newt Gingrich likely would have the greatest effect on NASA for one simple reason. He would pay attention to it. The beleaguered space agency, despite its frequent mention in lofty speeches about “reaching for the stars,” rarely gets put on the front burner of domestic policy — if it’s on the stove at […]

Playing politics: President’s NASA policy could haunt his party at the polls in Harris County, Editorial, Houston Chronicle “A parade of administration officials, starting with the president, has gone to Florida to promise federal assistance. In a speech at KSC, where some 20,000 NASA and contract workers are affected, Obama pledged an additional $40 million in job assistance. No such consideration has been shown toward other NASA facilities around the […]