Space is bigger than NASA, Scott Pace, The Hill “During the presidential campaign, Vice President Mike Pence promised to “relaunch the national space policy council headed by the vice president.” The White House does not, and has never needed, a space council to supervise NASA, but it does need a way to combine the separate strands of national security space programs, diplomatic engagement, commercial competition and civil space cooperation with […]

Here’s What President Obama Is Reading This Summer, Time “The presidential reading list also includes two big page-turners: Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves, a sci-fi adventure about space explorers returning to a post-apocalyptic planet Earth.” Seveneves, Wikipedia “At some unspecified date in the near future, an unknown force causes the Moon to shatter into seven pieces. As the shattered remnants of the Moon begin to collide with one another, astronomer and science […]

PCAST Discusses New Frontiers in Human Space Exploration, AIP “On July 14, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) met to discuss three topics, among them an update from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its leading commercial space industry partners on the progress being made in new frontiers in human space exploration. Other topics on the meeting agenda included a review of the Networking […]

Don James / #NASA education Office asleep one again. No mention here http://t.co/JcDXe3wQk4 of @WhiteHouse #WHScienceFair a few blocks away — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 23, 2015

Bolden: Keep Moving the Ball Forward, Don’t Get Discouraged, SpacePolicyOnline “Stressing that he was not suggesting President Obama would say anything about space exploration in tonight’s State of the Union address, Bolden said the President could say “for the first time in human history we may be going inside the 20-years-to-Mars.” Sending humans to Mars still is “without a doubt” at least 20 years away, he clarified, but “we’re about […]

White House: NASA bill would raise costs, cause delays “The Obama administration is concerned that a provision in a NASA funding bill being debated on the Senate floor this week would add costs and delays to the program that will replace the mothballed space shuttle with private rockets. As part of a $17.9 billion spending bill to fund NASA in fiscal year 2015, the Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this month […]

President Obama to Host First-Ever White House Maker Faire “A new announcement of opportunity for CubeSat developers later this year, with the goal of broadening its reach to all 50 states by targeting the 21 “rookie states” that have had no previous CubeSat presence in space, and will leverage the existing NASA Space Grant network of colleges and universities. CubeSats provide the opportunity for Makers to build small satellites to demonstrate new […]

NASA FY 2015 President’s Budget Request Summary “In the FY 2015 President’s Budget Request, NASA addresses the challenge of advancing U.S. leadership in space exploration, space and Earth science, and aeronautics in the current fiscal climate. In formulating this budget, projects and programs have been reviewed and their costs and benefits assessed to ensure the highest scientific return on the dollar.”

Investing in NASA, Advancing American Leadership in Space “The Obama Administration has proposed a record five-year investment of nearly $92 billion in NASA to maintain America’s leadership in space exploration and spur scientific and technical discovery here on Earth.  Although not all of this funding has been approved, NASA has still been racking up extraordinary accomplishments, including: … “

Hertz says NASA will NOT implement the education reorg the President proposed. But $ was taken away in '14 req, so have to find the $ now. — Marcia Smith (@SpcPlcyOnline) November 4, 2013 Hertz: NASA will do education and public outreach in FY14; proposed consolidation in WH budget proposal won't be implemented. #CAAmeeting — Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) November 4, 2013