Comments for AAS Public Policy Blog http://blog.aas.org The Steady State of the Union Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:51:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on House Subcommittee Proposes Canceling JWST along with Additional Cuts to NASA’s FY2012 Budget by Threat of James Webb Space Telescope cancellation rattles astronomy community | Playing God.org http://blog.aas.org/2011/07/07/house-subcommittee-proposes-canceling-jwst-along-with-additional-cuts-to-nasas-fy2012-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-3728 Threat of James Webb Space Telescope cancellation rattles astronomy community | Playing God.org Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:51:13 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=231#comment-3728 [...] upsetting,” American Astronomical Society (AAS) Executive Officer Kevin Marvel wrote on his organization’s blog. “The astronomy community knows the value of the JWST, recognizes that nearly all technical [...]

]]> Comment on FY2012 Appropriations for Astronomy by Mabel Stafford http://blog.aas.org/2011/09/21/fy2012-appropriations-for-astronomy/comment-page-1/#comment-3724 Mabel Stafford Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:34:42 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=236#comment-3724 The Earth science budget will receive a significant boost of $382 million for a total requested budget for FY 2011 of $1,802 million. The budget will allow NASA to develop and refly the Orbiting Carbon Observatory ($170 million), accelerates the development of new satellites for Earth science ($150 million), expands and accelerates Venture-class missions, enhances climate change modeling capabilities, operates 15 Earth-observing spacecraft, launches three satellites, Glory, NPOESS Preparatory Project and Aquarius in FY 2011 and proceeds toward completion and launch of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (June 2013) and the Global Precipitation Measurement mission (July 2013).

]]> Comment on House Subcommittee Proposes Canceling JWST along with Additional Cuts to NASA’s FY2012 Budget by Call to Action to Save JWST http://blog.aas.org/2011/07/07/house-subcommittee-proposes-canceling-jwst-along-with-additional-cuts-to-nasas-fy2012-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-3677 Call to Action to Save JWST Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:06:33 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=231#comment-3677 [...] keeping up with the day-to-day developments about the threat to cancel to JWST. I assumed that the cancellation by the House Appropriations Subcommittee in the FY12 budget proposal was an empty threat and that the higher-ups in the US Astronomical [...]

]]> Comment on American Astronomical Society Statement on the James Webb Space Telescope by Why completing James Webb can make Sense « Professional Astronomy http://blog.aas.org/2011/07/07/american-astronomical-society-statement-on-the-james-webb-space-telescope/comment-page-1/#comment-3655 Why completing James Webb can make Sense « Professional Astronomy Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:34:48 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=235#comment-3655 [...] American Astronomical Society quickly released a statement against the cancellation of this project. Also, in an BBC interview, NASA’s Lori Garver started to defend the project. A more [...]

]]> Comment on Senate Committee on Appropriations Assignments by Peter Noerdlinger http://blog.aas.org/2011/02/07/senate-committee-on-appropriations-assignments/comment-page-1/#comment-3636 Peter Noerdlinger Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:33:22 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=219#comment-3636 Display is no good – committee members names appear in a window too narrow to show the whole name You can scroll with arrow keys but who wants to bother Maybe it is for Windows – I am on a Mac. I also expanded the page as much as possible – window stayed narrow

]]> Comment on Policy Events at 217th AAS Meeting Seattle by SBC http://blog.aas.org/2011/01/09/policy-events-at-217th-aas-meeting-seattle/comment-page-1/#comment-3603 SBC Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:53:54 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=212#comment-3603 What about the NRAO town hall meeting?

]]> Comment on Rep. Gabby Giffords Shot by Marcos http://blog.aas.org/2011/01/08/rep-gabby-giffords-shot/comment-page-1/#comment-3602 Marcos Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:40:12 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=205#comment-3602 Rep. Giffords also spoke on the floor about the International Year of Astronomy, when she introduced a resolution about it back in 2008:

http://blog.aas.org/2008/07/08/iya-house-resolution/

]]> Comment on JWST Strategic Plan by Ivan King http://blog.aas.org/2011/01/09/jwst-strategic-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-3601 Ivan King Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:55:56 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=202#comment-3601 Your discussion of the plight of JWST is seriously incomplete without mention of Dennis Overbye’s ultra-pessimistic article about it, in last Tuesday’s Science section of the New York Times: “Quest for Dark Energy May Fade to Black.” Among other dark portents, he uses the phrase “might have to be postponed for a decade, NASA says.” (For copyright reasons, I don’t think I can quote at greater length.)

]]> Comment on Rep. Gabby Giffords Shot by jhne http://blog.aas.org/2011/01/08/rep-gabby-giffords-shot/comment-page-1/#comment-3600 jhne Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:23:57 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=205#comment-3600 Platform January 9, 2011

NASA Solicitation: Open Innovation Support Services for a COnsrtium Network Builder Platform Provider January 9, 2011

NASA Solicitation: Open Innovation Support Services for Internal Collaboration Support Platform and Intermediary January 9, 2011

NASA Solicitation: 2011 Summer of Innovation Project January 9, 2011

NASA Solicitatio

]]> Comment on The Future of Astronomy & Astrophysics in America by Dick http://blog.aas.org/2010/11/01/the-future-of-astronomy-astrophysics-in-america/comment-page-1/#comment-3588 Dick Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:14:47 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=196#comment-3588 Well, The Future of SPACED-BASED Astronomy & Astrophysics in America. There’s a lot going on on the ground.

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