News From Space!

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — Astronaut apparel has evolved over the decades from 1960s-era aluminum foil-style outfits to the bulky, 275-pound whites now used on jaunts outside the space station. NASA engineers at Houston’s Johnson Space Center are hard at work on updating the look even further.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/03/23/new.spacesuits.ap/

NASA administrator Michael Griffin testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on 28 February 2007, saying that recent budget cutbacks could push the first Project Constellation missions into 2015, increasing the gap between the Shuttle and Orion programs.

We don’t want to wind up without manned spaceflight capability, like we were between Apollo and Shuttle! Let’s go, Congress - someone will colonize the moon and Mars, it might as well be us!

• Testimony of Michael Griffin - Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Space, Aeronautics and Related Sciences
• NASA: Michael Griffin Feb 28 Senate Statement (35 Kb PDF)