Topic: Nasa
Robert Cobb, the Bush administration appointee to NASA Inspector General, resigned his post on April 2, 2009. Cobb had been under scrutiny since 2006, when an FBI probe was launched into allegations that he had punished whistleblowers and suppressed internal NASA investigations ...
The Nov. 2 elections that will put Republicans in charge of the U.S. House of Representatives in January likely means that two vocal critics of U.S. President Barack Obama's new direction for NASA will assume leadership of committees that oversee the space ...
When the Obama Administration announced a new plan for NASA last February, it set the stage for a major battle with congress. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives endorsed the Senate's version of the NASA authorisation bill, temporarily abandoning their own version. ...
A section of a bill passed last night by the House of Representatives expresses support for President Barack Obama's plan to restructure the bloated environmental satellite system known as NPOESS into two sister satellite programs run independently by civilian and military officials. ...
After months of political fighting, the cloud of uncertainty over NASA's future has lifted. Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 304-118 to approve the Senate version of the NASA reauthorization bill, paving the way for many of the initiatives that ...
The U.S. House recessed Sept. 24 without taking up a three-year NASA authorization bill, dimming prospects for passage of the nearly $50 billion measure before midterm elections Nov. 2. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said votes on all bills were postponed ...
Lawmakers are saying Congress is unlikely to make any spending decisions about NASA until after November 2, according to several reports. Those in favor of NASA funding increases should hope they act quickly, because Republican leaders have said if they regain control ...
NASA's advocates in Congress are racing against the clock to adopt a new space policy and get additional money proposed by President Obama. The impasse jeopardizes the extra $6 billion that Obama wants to spend on the agency over five years, and ...
The term “backronym” is used to refer to a number of things. The USA PATRIOT Act is one such example; lawmakers wanted to the name of a groundbreaking piece of legislation to turn into a memorable and distinctive acronym, so they created ...
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has stated that NASA administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. was wrong when he told Al Jazeera TV that President Obama had ordered him to make reaching out to Muslim nations a top priority for the space ...
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