Tag: Politics
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United Launch Alliance’s CEO weighs Blue Origin’s chances in multibillion-dollar rocket engine race
United Launch Alliance’s president and CEO, Tory Bruno, talks with students during the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – United Launch Alliance’s president and CEO, Tory Bruno, is facing a 2019 deadline from Congress to come up with a made-in-the-USA replacement for the Russian-built rocket engines…
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Moon Village vs. Journey to Mars: Which space vision will the next president pick?
An artist’s conception shows a permanent lunar base that’s part of the European Space Agency’s “Moon Village” vision. (Credit: ESA) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Over the past eight years, the focus of NASA’s space vision has shifted from the moon, to a near-Earth asteroid, to the journey to Mars. The European Space Agency’s director-general, meanwhile,…
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Washington state lawmakers pass tough new cybercrime bill — but that’s about it for tech
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Cybercrime became more of a crime. But proposed tax-breaks and gender-pay-equity bills died in committee. That’s how a few bills affecting the technology industry fared this year in the Washington Legislature. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee could still veto some bills prior to an April 2 deadline. (Credit: Office of the Governor) The main purpose…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk turns the talk from Donald Trump to reaching Mars by 2025
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shows President Barack Obama around the company’s Cape Canaveral rocket processing site in 2010. (Credit: Bill Ingalls / NASA) SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, has had to bat down all sorts of reports about political associations over the past couple of weeks – and the strategy that seems to work the best…
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NASA packs a big vision for space exploration into smaller $19 billion budget
NASA is developing a heavy-lift rocket known as the Space Launch System, shown in this artist’s conception. Spending in the category that includes the SLS and the Orion deep-space capsule would be trimmed in the budget proposed for the next fiscal year. (Credit: NASA) Christmas has come and gone, and so has a bump in…
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Bill would create Washington state space exploration center to boost fledgling industry
One of the commercial space ventures based in the Seattle region is Spaceflight Industries, whose SHERPA In-Space Tug offers a platform for hosting payloads for periods up to three years OLYMPIA, Wash. — A bill is in play in Washington state Legislature to get the state government deeply involved in nurturing Washington’s fledgling space-exploration industry. Rep.…
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Space ventures get shout-outs in State of the State Address – and State of the Union
In his State of the State Address, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee pointed to Aerojet Rocketdyne, Blue Origin and SpaceX as aerospace success stories. (Credit: Office of the Governor) Even though they happened far from the Evergreen State, last year’s Pluto flyby and the rocket landings accomplished by Blue Origin and SpaceX were among the “big…
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If elected, Hillary Clinton vows to ‘get to the bottom’ of the UFO mystery
If the truth about UFOs is out there, Hillary Clinton says she’ll be on it as president. When the Democratic presidential front-runner vowed to “get to the bottom” of the alien-visitation issue, she just might have locked up the “X-Files” vote – while giving her critics one more thing to taunt her with. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton…
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Congress’ omnibus bill gives NASA a Christmas bonus: a bigger $19.3 billion budget
An artist’s conception shows an orbiter at Europa, a mysterious moon of Jupiter. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech) The 2,009-page omnibus bill that’s been crafted by Congress for the current fiscal year boosts NASA’s budget to $19.3 billion, which is $756 million more than the White House asked for. The big winners include NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System and its planetary…
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Lawmakers geek out over Washington state’s rising space industry
Employees at Blue Origin’s headquarters in Kent, Wash., cheer as they watch the landing of the company’s New Shepard test spaceship on Nov. 23. “How do we steal that video?” Lt. Gov. Brad Owen joked after watching a clip showing the celebration. (Credit: Blue Origin) Washington state legislators got an introduction to the state’s space…