Public Policy

Recent Items

NASA Night slides at AGU - Dr. Alan Stern
Status of 2008 Appropriations Bills
The President signed a Continuing Resolution into law on Sept 29, 2007.
Senate Passes Mikulski-Hutchison Amendment for NASA funding, 4 Oct 2007
House Bill on Arecibo, 4 Oct 2007
NASA 2008 President's Budget Request
FRS Contact List for House and Senate Science Authorization and Appropriations Committees, OMB and OSTP
2 May 2007: Testimony to House Science Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
Includes statements by:
  • Chairman Mark Udall, D-CO
  • Dr. Alan Stern, Associate Administrator NASA Science Mission Directorate
  • Dr. Lennard Fisk, Chair National Research Council's Space Studies Board
  • Dr. Garth Illingworth, Chair Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
  • Dr. Daniel Baker, Director, Laboratory for Astronomy and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Dr. Joseph Burns, Vice Provost, Physical Science and Engineering, Cornell University
NASA Science Plan 2007-2016, released April 2007
Human Exploration: The Next Fifty Years
Aviation Week and Space Technology article by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, March 2007
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Fall DPS 2008

The 40th Annual meeting will is in Ithaca, NY, October 10-15, 2008.

All sessions are being Web-streamed Live!

Reaching out to Congress