Will it really be its last flight?
- LRK -
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Shuttle Atlantis streaks into orbit on final planned flight, but . . .
http://news.cnet.com/8301-
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The shuttle Atlantis blasted off on its 32nd and final planned mission Friday, closing out 25 years of service with a 12-day flight to deliver a Russian docking module and critical spare parts to the International Space Station.
With its three hydrogen-fueled main engines roaring at full thrust, the shuttle's twin solid-fuel boosters ignited on time at 2:20 p.m. EDT, instantly pushing the fully fueled 4.5-million-pound spacecraft away from pad 39A.
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Re-visit S. 3068, it still is in the news.
- LRK -
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http://appropriations.senate.
http://appropriations.senate.
http://appropriations.senate.
http://hutchison.senate.gov/
MAY 12 - Hutchison: “America Demands More From President’s NASA Plan” Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today expressed her disappointment in the Obama Administration’s proposal for NASA during a Commerce Committee hearing on the future of U.S. human space flight.
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What will be signed into law - or not - will play a role in how our space policy develops.
- LRK -
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http://tinyurl.com/22rcbpp
Recent Press Releases
Hutchison: “America Demands More From President’s NASA Plan”
Joe Brenckle - Republican Press Office 202-224-3991
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Senator Hutchison recently introduced legislation, the Human Space Flight Capability Assurance and Enhancement Act (S. 3068), to address these concerns by allowing for the extension of the shuttle, if needed for station sustainability, at a reduced rate of two flights per year. The bill would also authorize the accelerated development of a NASA-owned shuttle replacement, such as a shuttle-derived design using existing systems and capabilities and the current contractor work force.
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Again, you can track what our government is working on, and for S. 3068, see here.
- LRK -
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http://www.govtrack.us/
S. 3068: Human Space Flight Capability Assurance and Enhancement Act of 2010
A bill to reauthorize the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Human Space Flight Activities, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX]
Cosponsors: George LeMieux [R-FL]
Text: Full Text http://www.govtrack.us/
Status: Introduced Mar 3, 2010
Referred to Committee View Committee Assignments
Reported by Committee ...
Senate Vote ...
House Vote ...
Signed by President ...
This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee.
[Last Updated: Apr 14, 2010 6:19AM]
Last Action: Mar 3, 2010: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Related: See the Related Legislation page for other bills related to this one and a list of subject terms that have been applied to this bill. Sometimes the text of one bill or resolution is incorporated into another, and in those cases the original bill or resolution, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned.
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Where will we go from here?
- LRK -
Thanks for looking up with me.
- LRK -
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.
Comments accepted here - http://lunar-update.blogspot.
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/
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http://www.nasaspaceflight.
Lawmakers produce Bill to extend shuttle to 2015, utilize CxP, advance HLV
March 3rd, 2010 by Chris Bergin
Senator Kay Hutchison – in conjunction with Representatives Suzanne Kosmas and Bill Posey – has produced a 37 page Bill that proposes major refinements to NASA’s FY2011 proposal, and NASA’s forward plan. The Bill is centered around a shuttle extension to 2015, in support of fully utilizing the International Space Station (ISS), along with saving elements of Constellation – such as Orion and a Heavy Lift Launcher (HLV).
Shuttle Extension:
Efforts to reverse the 2010 retirement date of the shuttle fleet have been ongoing for a few years, without being realized – partly due to a lack of support from successive NASA administrators.
Former NASA boss Mike Griffin even worked directly against extension – mainly via protection of the Ares I launch vehicle’s budget – often citing safety concerns which had no basis in post Return To Flight reality.
With a level of support for an extension of the shuttle manifest – in tandem with the development of a Shuttle Derived HLV – gained at the Augustine Committee review into NASA’s Human Space Flight program, the door was opened for building on a 2008 Senate Bill that had already actioned pre-emptive measures to protect shuttle-related assets from decommissioning.
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Reading about how items become law. - LRK -
"Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies" by John W. Kingdon
http://www.amazon.com/Agendas-
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http://www.nss.org/resources/
Mars Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Space Exploration Initiative, by Thor Hogan, NASA-SP4410, 2007, 194 pages [PDF 9.4 MB] [review]. The rise of Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) and its eventual demise represents one of the landmark episodes in the history of the American space program. The story of this failed initiative is one shaped by key protagonists and critical battles. It is a tale of organizational, cultural, and personal confrontation. Skirmishes involved the Space Council versus NASA, the White House versus congressional appropriators, and the Johnson Space Center versus the rest of the space agency, all seeking control of the national space policy process.
http://www.nss.org/resources/
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The shuttle Atlantis blasted off on its 32nd and final planned mission Friday, closing out 25 years of service with a 12-day flight to deliver a Russian docking module and critical spare parts to the International Space Station.
With its three hydrogen-fueled main engines roaring at full thrust, the shuttle's twin solid-fuel boosters ignited on time at 2:20 p.m. EDT, instantly pushing the fully fueled 4.5-million-pound spacecraft away from pad 39A.
snip
------------------------------
Re-visit S. 3068, it still is in the news.
- LRK -
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http://appropriations.senate.
http://appropriations.senate.
http://appropriations.senate.
http://hutchison.senate.gov/
MAY 12 - Hutchison: “America Demands More From President’s NASA Plan” Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today expressed her disappointment in the Obama Administration’s proposal for NASA during a Commerce Committee hearing on the future of U.S. human space flight.
snip
------------------------------
What will be signed into law - or not - will play a role in how our space policy develops.
- LRK -
------------------------------
http://tinyurl.com/22rcbpp
Recent Press Releases
Hutchison: “America Demands More From President’s NASA Plan”
Joe Brenckle - Republican Press Office 202-224-3991
snip
Senator Hutchison recently introduced legislation, the Human Space Flight Capability Assurance and Enhancement Act (S. 3068), to address these concerns by allowing for the extension of the shuttle, if needed for station sustainability, at a reduced rate of two flights per year. The bill would also authorize the accelerated development of a NASA-owned shuttle replacement, such as a shuttle-derived design using existing systems and capabilities and the current contractor work force.
snip
------------------------------
Again, you can track what our government is working on, and for S. 3068, see here.
- LRK -
------------------------------
http://www.govtrack.us/
S. 3068: Human Space Flight Capability Assurance and Enhancement Act of 2010
A bill to reauthorize the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Human Space Flight Activities, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX]
Cosponsors: George LeMieux [R-FL]
Text: Full Text http://www.govtrack.us/
Status: Introduced Mar 3, 2010
Referred to Committee View Committee Assignments
Reported by Committee ...
Senate Vote ...
House Vote ...
Signed by President ...
This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee.
[Last Updated: Apr 14, 2010 6:19AM]
Last Action: Mar 3, 2010: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Related: See the Related Legislation page for other bills related to this one and a list of subject terms that have been applied to this bill. Sometimes the text of one bill or resolution is incorporated into another, and in those cases the original bill or resolution, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned.
snip
------------------------------
Where will we go from here?
- LRK -
Thanks for looking up with me.
- LRK -
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.
Comments accepted here - http://lunar-update.blogspot.
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/
==============================
http://www.nasaspaceflight.
Lawmakers produce Bill to extend shuttle to 2015, utilize CxP, advance HLV
March 3rd, 2010 by Chris Bergin
Senator Kay Hutchison – in conjunction with Representatives Suzanne Kosmas and Bill Posey – has produced a 37 page Bill that proposes major refinements to NASA’s FY2011 proposal, and NASA’s forward plan. The Bill is centered around a shuttle extension to 2015, in support of fully utilizing the International Space Station (ISS), along with saving elements of Constellation – such as Orion and a Heavy Lift Launcher (HLV).
Shuttle Extension:
Efforts to reverse the 2010 retirement date of the shuttle fleet have been ongoing for a few years, without being realized – partly due to a lack of support from successive NASA administrators.
Former NASA boss Mike Griffin even worked directly against extension – mainly via protection of the Ares I launch vehicle’s budget – often citing safety concerns which had no basis in post Return To Flight reality.
With a level of support for an extension of the shuttle manifest – in tandem with the development of a Shuttle Derived HLV – gained at the Augustine Committee review into NASA’s Human Space Flight program, the door was opened for building on a 2008 Senate Bill that had already actioned pre-emptive measures to protect shuttle-related assets from decommissioning.
snip
==============================
Reading about how items become law. - LRK -
"Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies" by John W. Kingdon
http://www.amazon.com/Agendas-
==============================
http://www.nss.org/resources/
Mars Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Space Exploration Initiative, by Thor Hogan, NASA-SP4410, 2007, 194 pages [PDF 9.4 MB] [review]. The rise of Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) and its eventual demise represents one of the landmark episodes in the history of the American space program. The story of this failed initiative is one shaped by key protagonists and critical battles. It is a tale of organizational, cultural, and personal confrontation. Skirmishes involved the Space Council versus NASA, the White House versus congressional appropriators, and the Johnson Space Center versus the rest of the space agency, all seeking control of the national space policy process.
http://www.nss.org/resources/
snip
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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