Two items about the NASA budget situation

• Science and sequestration in context – Behind The Black
• What’s Going On with NASA Education and Public Outreach? – The Planetary Society

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A couple of recent items by Jeff Foust dealing with a Senate hearing on the asteroid threat and with space related petitions:

• Don’t send Bruce Willis to do a robot’s job – Space Politics
• Petitions, full of sound and fury, signifying… – Space Politics

The Chinese plan to use Rep. Wolf (R-VA) to undermine the US aerospace industry and university research is working like a charm:

• Hysteria in Full Bloom – NASA Technical Server Taken Off Line – Innerspace.net
• Sequestration and Espionage: Public Loses Access to NASA – Moonandback

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Ed Wright comments on Charles Bolden’s comments last week to a hearing on the asteroid/comet impact threat: NASA Administrator Falters on Planetary Defense – CitizensInSpace.org

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Chuck Black reports on developments in Canadian aerospace policy: Emerson’s Space Plan Versus the Canadian Budget – Commercial Space

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Res Communis post the latest collection of space and aviation law, regulation and policy links: Library: A Round-up of Reading.

NASA begins to make some cuts here and there in response to recent budget reductions:

• With budget uncertainty resolved, sequestration’s effects kick in -Space Politics
• Sequestration forces NASA to hold up educational and outreach efforts – Cosmic Log.

Charles Bolden continues to assert that NASA has a clear long term strategy and it starts with a human mission to an asteroid in 2025 time frame: Combating the perception of a lack of consensus – Space Politics.

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And more about NASA’s budget:

• US Space Budgets: Three Weeks into Sequestration – Space Safety Magazine
• Bolden Reassures Wolf on China, Talks Budget Realities – spacepolicyonline.com