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Its all about job creation…
As this year is drawing to a close, there are still many big issues Congress is grappling with – healthcare, the war in Afghanistan,… But what I am hearing in meeting after meeting I attend is that there is going to be a big focus on jo...
Appropriations Bill for NSF, NASA Headed to Conference Vote
The Senate has passed the FY2010 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Bill, which appropriates funds for NASA and NSF. The House passed their version back in June. The Bill is now headed to a conference vote where the differences between the ...
Geoengineering and an inside look at congressional hearings
Its been pretty quiet on the astronomy policy front lately. But the House Science and Technology Committee has been holding all sorts of interesting hearings. So I wandered into one this morning on “Geoengineering: Assessing the Implication...
Augustine Commission Report released
The long-anticipated final report from the Augustine Commission has been released. You can download the full report here. There are no big surprises in the main points of the report since the summary report was released in September. The media h...
Advisory Committees, Pu-238 production restart
Its astronomy advisory committee meeting time in DC. The Astrophysics Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council held its meeting on Oct. 8-9. And the Congressionally Chartered AAAC held its meeting last week (Oct. 15-16). You can see presentati...
Astro2010 Survey Committee meeting
I attended the final open meeting of the Astro2010 Survey Committee this morning. This is the top-level committee chaired by Roger Blandford that will consider and synthesize the input provided by the Science Frontiers Panels, the Program Prioritiz...

