Here are reports on some hearings this week in D.C.:
April 22: A description of remarks by Cornell University’s Steve Squyres and George Washington University’s Scott Pace at the meeting of the National Research Council Committee on Human Spaceflight: Squyres, Pace, Not Convinced of Asteroid Return Strategy – spacepolicyonline.com
April 23, 2013, the U.S.Senate Subcommittee on Science and Space hearing NASA’s human spaceflight program:
April 24: House Space Subcommitee hearing on Wed. April 24th on NASA’s 2014 Budget proposal.
Reports on the planetary science funding in the administration’s proposed 2014 budget:
I recently began here a serialization of an updated version of the book The Rocket Company
This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book:
Download these within the next week. Only four chapters will be available at any one time.
The electronic version of the updated book is available at The Rocket Company eBook by Patrick Stiennon, David Hoerr, Peter Diamandis, Doug Birkhol: Kindle Store/Amazon.com
The drama of the 1960s Space Age and the journalists reporting on it in Florida might become the basis of a new TV series from the team that created the hit Mad Men
In a promotion of Will Smith’s new movie After Earth , Smith participated in a Google+ Hangout moderated by Google’s Ray Kurzweil, and included guests Elon Musk, Alexandra Cousteau, and NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams: SpaceX’s Elon Musk and friends look to the far future: Engage warp drive! – Cosmic Log
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Here’s a concise history of the X-15 , the first rocketplane to reach space: Suborbital Spaceplane – Greg Kennedy/CitizensInSpace.org
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