http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/ News and Analysis from the World of Science Policy en Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:41 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The new idea of a scaled-back climate bill to focus just on the power sector is a bad idea, said White House climate czar Carol Browner. A historic two-story building at Los Alamos National Laboratory that was part of the... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1120-wi.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1120-wi.html Environment/Climate Space Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:41 -0500 by Dennis Normile TOKYO—Manned space exploration "is in our DNA," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said during a town hall meeting here today at the University of Tokyo (Todai). The former astronaut said he hoped to convince his boss, U.S. President... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/nasas-bolden-di-1.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/nasas-bolden-di-1.html Asia Space Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:29:49 -0500 http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/end-of-the-line.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/end-of-the-line.html Physical Science Space Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:41:38 -0500 by Andrew Lawler NASA should consider extending space shuttle launches into 2011 rather than ending the program next fall, flying the international space station at least until 2020, and boosting spending on its flagging technology programs. That’s the verdict of... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/no-nasa-augusti.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/no-nasa-augusti.html Space Top Story augustine Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:52:54 -0500 by Richard A. Kerr Before being arrested Monday and charged with trying to sell classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence agent, planetary physicist Stewart Nozette was on a mission. Fifteen years earlier, he had... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/accused-spy-was.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/accused-spy-was.html Defense Space Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:22:15 -0500 by Jeffrey Mervis President Barack Obama spent time yesterday looking at the stars—both real and those in the scientific firmament. In a formal ceremony in the East Room of the White House, the president honored this year's winners of the... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/obama-honors-sc.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/obama-honors-sc.html Physical Science Space Technology White House Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:15:41 -0500 by Richard A. KerrJust days after expressing “great confidence” that they had found the best possible target for next week’s planned crash into the moon, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission team has retreated from its first... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/nasa-changes-mo.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/nasa-changes-mo.html Space Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:01:58 -0500 In a response to lawsuits by environmental groups, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will review a controversial decision on ozone pollution limits made in March 2008 and propose a new standard by December. Conservation and animal welfare groups asked the... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/roundup-916-pre.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/roundup-916-pre.html Environment/Climate Space Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:12:15 -0500 by Jeffrey MervisDelivering its summary report yesterday to the White House and NASA, the Augustine commission surprised no one by declaring that the U.S. human spaceflight program is "on an unsustainable trajectory." But while its call for a bigger agency... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/think-globally.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/think-globally.html Space Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:05:47 -0500 The blue-ribbon panel reviewing NASA's human space flight program says it will give the White House a written summary of its findings on Tuesday, 8 September. The panel, chaired by Norman Augustine, a retired aerospace executive, began meeting in June... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/space-flight-su.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/space-flight-su.html Space Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:52:55 -0500 A spokesperson for the Office of Science and Technology Policy said today that the White House has not received a report from the panel reviewing NASA's plans for human space flight (the so-called Augustine commission). The panel has until mid-October,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/no-augustine-re.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/no-augustine-re.html Space White House Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:59:51 -0500 See an update to this item here.The much-ballyhooed report on the future of the U.S. human space program was submitted today to the White House. Or so rumor has it. The so-called Augustine report is the latest in a series... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/lost-in-space-t.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/lost-in-space-t.html Space White House Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:07:56 -0500 NEW DELHI—India’s maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, has come to a shuddering and unexpected halt. On 29 August, the Indian Space Research Organization lost all contact with the spacecraft after a catastrophic failure of its electronics, said ISRO Chair G. Madhavan... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/08/indian-moon-mis.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/08/indian-moon-mis.html Asia Space Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:20:19 -0500 The wildfire raging in Angeles National Forrest outside of Los Angeles, California, is inching close to Mount Wilson, home to the 105-year-old Mount Wilson Observatory. The facility was evacuated on Saturday. The fire has already destroyed more than 42,000 acres... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/08/california-wild.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/08/california-wild.html Space Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:05:31 -0500 NEW DELHI—Indian scientists point to a search for water ice above the moon's north pole, conducted with the United States on 20 August, as a sign that India's lunar craft Chandrayaan-1 is functioning well. India's first lunar satellite had... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/08/chandrayaan1-jo.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/08/chandrayaan1-jo.html Space Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:00:55 -0500