Tag: White House
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Biden administration renews mandate for National Space Council
President Biden speaks with members of the Perseverance rover team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on March 4. Credit: White House photo by Adam Schultz President Biden will renew the National Space Council, a space policy group revived by the Trump White House after 25 years of dormancy, to assist in “generating national space policies,…
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Biden to nominate former Sen. Bill Nelson as NASA administrator
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Sen. Bill Nelson speaks during a Senate hearing in 2012. Credit: NASA/Paul Alers Former Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, a longtime space advocate whose district included the Kennedy Space Center and who flew aboard the shuttle Columbia in 1986 as a congressional observer, is President Biden’s choice to serve…
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Next NASA chief will face big decisions on future moonshots (and Blue Origin’s role)
In a 2014 photo taken during his time as a U.S. senator, Bill Nelson (center) checks out a mockup of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center in Florida with former astronaut Chris Ferguson as his guide. (NASA Photo / Kim Shiflett) President Joe Biden’s choice to lead NASA — former U.S. Sen.…
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Government study looks to improve planning for possible asteroid impact
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION This image, taken in 2015, shows Earth as seen by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), aboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft.Credit: NASA The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is spearheading a 10-year plan to improve detection of near-Earth asteroids and comets that…
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White House taps Bridenstine to head NASA
Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Oklahoma, speaks at the 32nd Space Symposium in April 2016. Credit: Tom Kimmell/Space Foundation President Trump plans to nominate Rep. Jim Bridenstine, an Oklahoma Republican who has championed commercial spaceflight and a return to the moon, to be the next NASA administrator after months of speculation. Bridenstine was long rumored to be…
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Trump’s NASA budget request reduces Earth science, eliminates education office
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA The Trump administration’s fiscal 2018 budget request includes $19.1 billion for NASA, a $561 million decrease over previously enacted levels that would reduce the number of Earth science missions, eliminate the agency’s education office and do away with the…
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President Trump calls International Space Station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION President Trump called the International Space Station Monday for a videochat watched by thousands of school kids, congratulating commander Peggy Whitson on becoming America’s most experienced astronaut and jokingly promising to get Americans to Mars “during my first term or, at worst, during my second term.” Joined by…