{"id":1251,"date":"2013-03-21T05:33:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T05:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2013-03-21T16:19:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:19:54","slug":"congressional-hearings-on-the-asteroid-impact-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1251","title":{"rendered":"Congressional hearings on the asteroid impact threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Foust reports on the House hearing on Tuesday about the threat of asteroid impacts on earth: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacepolitics.com\/2013\/03\/20\/nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs\" target=\"_d\">NASA to Congress: don\u2019t \u201cpour money\u201d into NEO programs &#8211; Space Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here are a couple of items about a Senate hearing on Wednesday about the same issue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/21\/science\/space\/better-asteroid-detection-needed-experts-say.html?_r=0\" target=\"_d\">Better Asteroid Detection Needed, Experts Tell Senate Panel &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-asteroids-senator-space-threats-hearing-bruce-willis-20130320,0,3922479.story\" target=\"_d\">Asteroids: Senator at space-threat hearing calls Bruce Willis as backup post Russian meteor &#8211; latimes.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Stephen C. Smith (<a href=\"http:\/\/spaceksc.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Space KSC blog<\/a>) has posted videos of both hearings:<\/p>\n<p>* March 20, 2013 &#8211; the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Science and Space held a hearing titled, &#8220;Assessing the Risks, Impacts, and Solutions for Space Threats.&#8221; The invited witnesses were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. James Green, Director, Planetary Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Ed Lu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer B612 Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Richard DalBello, Vice President, Legal and Government Affairs, Intelsat General<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese, Professor, National Security Affairs, U.S. Naval War College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VLpBGvLZ3U4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* March 19, 2013, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing titled, &#8220;Threats from Space: A Review of U.S. Government Efforts to Track and Mitigate Asteroids and Meteors, Part 1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Invited witnesses were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John P. Holdren, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President<\/li>\n<li>Gen. William L. Shelton, Commander, U.S. Air Force Space Command<\/li>\n<li>Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XoMiJtQpIvg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Foust reports on the House hearing on Tuesday about the threat of asteroid impacts on earth: NASA to Congress: don\u2019t \u201cpour money\u201d into NEO programs &#8211; Space Politics. And here are a couple of items about a Senate hearing on Wednesday about the same issue: Better Asteroid Detection Needed, Experts Tell Senate Panel &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1251\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congressional hearings on the asteroid impact threat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-policy","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-kb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1401,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1401","url_meta":{"origin":1251,"position":0},"title":"Space Policy: NASA budget + Asteroid deflecting + Space petitions","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"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 === A couple of recent items by Jeff Foust dealing with a Senate hearing on the asteroid threat and with space\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space Policy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space Policy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1240,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1240","url_meta":{"origin":1251,"position":1},"title":"House hearing on the NEO threat + John S. 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