Representative Bart Gordon of Tennessee sent this post to The Hill:
The House Committee on Science and Technology took an important step toward energy innovation and security this week with the passage of H.R. 364, a bill to establish an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E).
I first introduced this bill in the 109th Congress in [...]
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Posted in US National Policy on Nov 13th, 2006
SOME people constantly badgered the Bush led Republicans as being bad for science in general. So, I imagine they were quite relieved when the Democrats took the house a week ago. Here’s a little look at what NASA can expect to deal with now that those people who hated Bush got their way:
Regarding funding, Representative [...]
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Posted in US National Policy on Jun 5th, 2006
This is just cool:
As Phil Platt notes, it was taken from ISS and most likely they were the first people to know it was erupting. And, I agree with him, this is probably the most important thing the ISS has contributed in some time. NASA’s budget is stretched pretty thin right now with aggressive new [...]
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Posted in US National Policy on May 9th, 2005
This was posted by my buddy Stormwarning on the Motley Fool. I agreed with it so much I had to steal it.
Another installment from CEO Magazine, May 2005.
I realize that this has been argued back and forth, and yet, the fact remains, that people more knowing than I continue to believe that this country is [...]
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