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AIA Adores Sen. Shelby and The Shameless Art Of Pork
AIA Adores Sen. Shelby and The Shameless Art Of Pork

AIA Presents Wings of Liberty Award to Sen. Richard Shelby “The Aerospace Industries Association is proud to present the annual “Wings of Liberty” award to Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama for his work to ensure funding for defense and non-defense programs vital to our national security and the health of our nation’s aerospace industry. Senator Shelby is currently the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and chairs the […]

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  • September 12, 2018
ULA Begs Congress To Let Them Kill Delta Rockets (Update)
ULA Begs Congress To Let Them Kill Delta Rockets (Update)

How Elon Musk exposed billions in questionable Pentagon spending, Politico “Yet despite the potentially more cost-effective alternative, taxpayers will be paying the price for ULA’s contracts for years to come, POLITICO has found. Estimates show that, through 2030, the cost of the Pentagon’s launch program will hit $70 billion – one of the most expensive programs within the Defense Department. And even if ULA is never awarded another government contract, […]

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  • May 13, 2016
What Will The NASA Budget Look Like? Just Follow The Money
What Will The NASA Budget Look Like? Just Follow The Money

New NASA budget eats the seed corn of its Journey to Mars, Ars Technica “In other words, Mikulski gets a nice Earth-observing project for her backyard, wholly unrelated to human spaceflight, and agrees to whatever budget increases for SLS that the chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee over space, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), wants. Shelby looks out for SLS because it is managed by the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.” […]

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  • April 25, 2016
Upper Stage Engine Amnesia in Alabama
Upper Stage Engine Amnesia in Alabama

Statement by Sen. Shelby on NASA FY 2017 Budget Request “Surprisingly, NASA has not proposed a single dollar for the development of an upper stage engine that is absolutely necessary for a crewed mission that is only seven years away.” Keith’s note: Of course Shelby forgets that $1.2 billion NASA spent on the J-2X for use on Ares V and SLS upper stages – much of it was spent in […]

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  • March 10, 2016
ULA Embraces The Dark Side of the Force

Is there a new reusable age around the corner? Sober analysis says no. https://t.co/k6OXJszMLB — George Sowers (@george_sowers) January 2, 2016 Keith’s note: Now that Sen. Shelby has used his Dark Side powers to enable ULA’s addiction to Russian engines to continue, ULA is off using its staff to sow seeds of anti-reusable technology such as that being promoted by SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic. This slow motion desperation […]

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  • January 4, 2016
Sen. Shelby: The King Of Political Cronyism and Hypocrisy
Sen. Shelby: The King Of Political Cronyism and Hypocrisy

Shelby to oppose spending bill he loaded with goodies, Politico “Sen. Richard Shelby loaded up the $1.1 trillion spending bill with pet provisions, including one measure worth hundreds of millions to a rocket manufacturer with operations in his home state. The cagey lawmaker also fought hard for language protecting red snapper fisheries on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, even issuing a press release bragging about his efforts. “That is why I fought […]

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  • December 17, 2015
How NASA Changed The Cloud

The Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That’s Changing Everything, Wired “So [Federal CIO Vivek] Kundra summoned Chris Kemp to the White House, and he eventually used NASA Nebula to launch USAspending.gov — a site that shared the government’s spending with the world at large — while drawing up plans to expand the platform to other agencies as well. The problem was that certain U.S. lawmakers and NASA […]

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  • April 2, 2012
Sen. Shelby's Blatant Hypocrisy

Rocket man: Richard Shelby pushes NASA funds, Politico “Republican Sen. Richard Shelby has been one of Barack Obama’s most persistent critics, accusing the president of putting the country on a road to financial ruin with deficits as far as the eye can see. But his demands to slash government programs tend to stop at the Alabama state line. Here in his home state, Shelby has been pressuring the Obama administration […]

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  • September 6, 2011
Alabama Vs Florida Food Fight Over SLS Funds

Florida senators dispute Sen. Richard Shelby’s criticism of spending at Kennedy Space Center, Huntsville Times “Florida’s senators share the frustration. So do Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and more than a few House representatives. They’ve all pressed NASA and the White House this year to get started on SLS. But the Shelby/Sessions letter went further and accused NASA of wrongly shifting some $341 million to Kennedy Space Center in […]

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  • September 2, 2011
Shelby Provision = More Money Wasted

NASA still ordered to waste $1.4 million a day, Chicago Tribune “Congress has again failed to rid a temporary spending bill of language forcing NASA to waste $1.4 million a day on its defunct Constellation moon program. This so-called “Shelby provision” — named for U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, who inserted it into the 2010 budget — is expected to cost NASA roughly $29 million during the three-week budget extension […]

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  • March 23, 2011