Curious about what life’s like on the ISS? I was. Hat tip Andrew Sullivan.
Category: NASA
Change Comes Knocking
Looks like the NSF and NASA budgets are in for a period of unpredictability. Details here at ScienceInsider.
Where’s the Change We Can Believe In?
ScienceInsider slams the Obama Administration here for not releasing science policy reviews such as the NASA manned space flight review headed by Norman Augustine.
Money quote:
The so-called Augustine report is the latest in a series of analyses of pressing issues affecting the research community—scientific integrity and biosecurity being the others—that the Obama Administration has chosen to keep under wraps. The pattern of asking experts to study an issue and then not disclosing their recommendations seems at odds with the repeated promises of President Barack Obama to maintain a culture of openness in government.
Charles Bolden to head NASA?
Politico says that former astronaut Charles Bolden is going to be the pick for NASA administrator. That suggests to me that manned space flight is still going to be in the mix.
Jim
Discoverers and Discoveries 