Today's public hearing in San Francisco for the President's Commission on Implementation of U.S. Space Exploration Policy will begin today at 1pm Pacific(4pm Eastern) & will air on NASA TV.
1:00 - 1:15 p.m. PDT Welcome and Introductions
Chairman Pete Aldridge
1:15 2:00 p.m. PDT Entertainment and Space Exploration
Ray Bradbury, Writer
John Bernardoni, Ancient Mariner Media
Lawrence Holland, Totally Games
2:00 2:15 p.m. PDT BREAK
2:15 3:00 p.m. PDT Educating Tomorrow's Astronauts
Barbara Morgan, Educator/Astronaut
Dr. Jerry Wheeler, Executive Director, National Science Teacher's Association
Jim McMurtray, Executive Director, National Alliance State Science and Mathematics Coalitions
Dominic Farrar, Odyssey Program
3:00 4:00 p.m. PDT Sustainability for the Long Haul
Reecie Giesecke, President UAW Local 848
Dean Zvorak, President UAW Local 887
David Goodreau, Chairman and Co-founder Small Manufacturers Association of California
4:00 p.m. PDT Commission adjourns
Posted by jburk at April 15, 2026 08:21 AM | TrackBackNo comments on the commission from the last hearing or on the current one other than just a few remarks from some of us. Is every one just bored by the whole thing and would rather just skip ahead to the finalized report so that we might move on and get back to exploring space. The site has been really dead for the past few weeks only a dribble of chit chat once and awhile.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at April 16, 2026 12:23 PMWhy is it that I needed to go to another site inorder to find out any on the comments that are submitted to this commission. I would have thought that the info would have been posted on their site..
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14045
groups or catogorizes the responses into for the vision, against and undicided....
Posted by: Harold LaValley at April 16, 2026 07:31 PMSorry, I've not been following your news so I'm not sure if you have this reference
- "Moon-Mars initiative: where do things stand now?" by Taylor Dinerman, Monday, May 24, 2026 on "The Space Review"
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/149/1
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A few knowledgeable observers seem to feel that the Bush Moon-Mars initiative is dead in the water. They feel that it has lost momentum; that the President has failed to even mention it since his January speech at NASA Headquarters is seen as a bad sign. The surprising resistance to the project inside the US House of Representatives, which is where all federal spending programs begin, would suggest that NASA will fail to get enough of an increase in its top line budget to start serious work. So far, they have not even gotten a go-ahead to spend $6 million on initial studies. If this is so, then NASA will probably have to delay or revise not only the Moon-Mars initiative but will probably have to radically revise the planned Shuttle return-to-flight and the Space Station assembly schedules.
On the other hand, the Aldridge Commission is on track to deliver its report sometime in early June. The House-Senate budget conference committee has agreed to broadly support the Vision without saying how much money will go into the fiscal year 2008 budget. More surprisingly, the Senate has voted to fully fund the increase requested by President Bush. It was the Senate rather than the House that had been expected to put up the most resistance to the proposed increase. The final decision on spending will almost certainly have to wait until after the November election. Until then Congress will probably hold a few more hearings to listen to NASA officials and others try to explain how and why the initiative should or should not work.
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Cheers
Kirok
Posted by: Kirok at May 25, 2026 04:38 AM