Next National Space Council Meeting
National Space Council Meeting
Keith’s note: The next meeting of the National Space Council will be 21 February at KSC. The people selected to serve on the Users’ Advisory Panel are starting to be notified that they have been selected and will be in attendance as well. More to follow.
– National Space Council Users’ Advisory Group Established, earlier post
– Apply Now To Be On The National Space Council Users’ Advisory Group, earlier post
They are making very very slow progress – maybe by 2020 they will have some proposed actions? Just in time to be phased out.
I wonder about these types of advisory councils. Are participants paying air fare and hotel or is there a per diem?
Actually this council was in existence till Obama killed it and its a governmet body so why wouldnt they be on the public purse
It was in existence until Obama rolled its functions into the Science and Technology Council, which is where they had been before President Bush separated them out into the Space Council.
I’m not sure who you mean. The members of the National Space Council definitely get reimbursed (or have the government directly pay for airfare and hotels). At that level, the government probably also pays for some of their staff to attend. Anyone outside the Council who they asked to make a presentation would probably be reimbursed, but that isn’t certain.
But the government doesn’t (directly) cover expenses for anyone else in the peanut gallery for an open session. They might be traveling at their employer’s expense (and that might come out of the overhead the employer charges to NASA contracts). If the meeting is relevant to a NASA grant, then someone could bill expenses to the grant. But that last case is a very grey area and the rules are a bit convoluted. And some people, especially locals, might attend an open session at their own, personal expense. Note that all of this assumes there are open sessions, and people can get on the list before they hit the capacity of the venue.