Sentences with phrase «u.s. space science»

NASA earlier proposed a greater U.S. contribution to Euclid, but the U.S. astrophysics community was not supportive for fear it would drain resources from WFIRST or other U.S. space science priorities.

The White House has bleaker plans for WFIRST, which the U.S. space science community ranked as the highest priority for NASA's astrophysics program in the 2010 Decadal Survey.

Kathryn Flanagan, deputy director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, says that the U.S. space science education community breathed a «huge sigh of relief» when Congress reasserted the mission directorate's key role in education.

The White House's controversial plans for U.S. space science and exploration could ignite a budgetary battle with Congress

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Merck has been collaborating with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), which has been tasked by NASA to oversee the ISS's U.S. National Lab since 2012.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin Corp. are among the space heavyweights developing experimental aircraft that could fly U.S. travelers at speeds right out of a science fiction movie.

► For weeks in this space, we have chronicled (via ScienceInsider) the fate of the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology Act (FIRST) Act in the U.S. House of Representatives.

«Webb is the highest priority project for the agency's science mission directorate, and the largest international space science project in U.S. history,» said acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, who is retiring from the agency next month.

So far, more than 30,000 students have had the experience of designing experiments for microgravity through the SSEP program, which is part of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally.

Akin sits on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, which is responsible for much of the U.S. federal science enterprise, so he should be aware of what science actually says about key policy Science, Space, and Technology, which is responsible for much of the U.S. federal science enterprise, so he should be aware of what science actually says about key policy science enterprise, so he should be aware of what science actually says about key policy science actually says about key policy issues.

But amid this governmental turmoil, another, longer - term development is under way that will affect the lives of everyone in the U.S. and take its toll on others around the world — the loss of critical expertise and capacity in the science agencies of the federal government, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, among many others.

In the meantime, speculation about the U.S.'s future in space has reached its highest point in recent memory, as made clear here last week by the proceedings of the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC).

Dr. Elaine Ulrich was a fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.

Bob Walker, a Gingrich booster and former chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Science (now the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology), said that Gingrich «would probably be the most knowledgeable president on technology issues ever elected.»

Ann Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace U.S., sent letters to the leaders of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.

Representative Roscoe Bartlett (R - MD), the second - oldest member of the U.S. House of Representatives; a longtime member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology; and one of the few members of Congress with a doctoral degree in science, has been defeated in his bid for reelScience, Space, and Technology; and one of the few members of Congress with a doctoral degree in science, has been defeated in his bid for reelscience, has been defeated in his bid for reelection.

In a letter that he wrote earlier this week to members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Moniz describes plans to create two internal panels that will advise him on possible reforms to the $ 12 - billion - a-year network of science, weapons, and environmental cleanup faciScience, Space, and Technology, Moniz describes plans to create two internal panels that will advise him on possible reforms to the $ 12 - billion - a-year network of science, weapons, and environmental cleanup faciscience, weapons, and environmental cleanup facilities.

Representative Lamar Smith (R - TX), the chair of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives released the following (5:00 p.m. on 10 April):

A grad student's photo project to promote space science involving NASA researchers dressed as Vikings has sparked a government waste investigation triggered by a senior U.S. senator.

As was pointed out earlier in this space (Science, 15 August 2003), those price differentials have become a sharp political issue, with many U.S. consumers buying medicines online from different countries or traveling to import them directly.

According to my correspondence with the Space Telescope Science Institute I am allowed to use the POSS - II / UKSTU data to create and display images for non-commercial purposes so long as I include this fine print taken from the DSS site: The Digitized Sky Surveys were produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W - 2166.

and this acknowledgement taken from the DSS site: The Digitized Sky Surveys were produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W - 2166.

In addition to planetary science, the new budget also allocates $ 1.243 billion for Commercial Crew (sending U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station starting in 2017), $ 2 billion for the Space Launch System (SLS), $ 1.921 billion for Earth Science studies, and $ 686 million for the Space Technology Mission Directorate science, the new budget also allocates $ 1.243 billion for Commercial Crew (sending U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station starting in 2017), $ 2 billion for the Space Launch System (SLS), $ 1.921 billion for Earth Science studies, and $ 686 million for the Space Technology Mission Directorate Science studies, and $ 686 million for the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD).

Astro - H is Japan's sixth X-ray astronomy mission, and is being developed at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS / JAXA) with significant collaboration from U.S. (NASA / GSFC) and Japanese institutions.

Hofstadter has taken part in various studies through the years that have investigated concepts for missions to Uranus which haven't been selected by the U.S. space agency to date, due to severe budget cuts to its planetary science programs.

Kelly Holley - Bockelmann, associate professor of astrophysics at Vanderbilt University, has been appointed by NASA's Astrophysics Directorate to be chair of the U.S. Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Study Team, a group of 18 scientists who will advise NASA on science issues related to the proposed space observaSpace Antenna (LISA) Study Team, a group of 18 scientists who will advise NASA on science issues related to the proposed space observaspace observatory.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R - TX), Chairman U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology Rep. Donna Edwards (D - MD), Member U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology

Acknowledgments: This research was funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Interdisciplinary Science Program and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Atmospheric System Research program and Scientific Discovery through Advance Computing program.

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing at 10:00 am ET this morning is expected to provide another opportunity to address the future of the U.S. civil space program, both human and robSpace, and Technology Committee hearing at 10:00 am ET this morning is expected to provide another opportunity to address the future of the U.S. civil space program, both human and robspace program, both human and robotic.

Creating good jobs across the economy: As you know, basic science research in the U.S. is largely funded by grants to individual investigators or national laboratories from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), the Dept. of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and a few other agscience research in the U.S. is largely funded by grants to individual investigators or national laboratories from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), the Dept. of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and a few other agScience Foundation (NSF), the Dept. of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and a few other agScience, the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and a few other agScience and Technology (NIST), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and a few other agencies.

Our executive director Annie Leonard just sent a letter to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, and two letters to the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology (here and here) in pursuit of answers.

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WASHINGTON (February 1, 2018)-- Cal Dooley, President and CEO of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement in response to the U.S. House Science, Space, & Technology Committee's (SST) decision to hold a full committee hearing examining the International Agency for Research on Cancer's (IARC) Monographs Program and glyphosate review.

WASHINGTON (February 7, 2018)-- Tuesday, February 6, the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology held a full committee hearing to examine the scientific integrity of the International Agency for Research on Cancer's (IARC) Monographs Program and glyphosate review.

The Space Telescope Science Institute's (STScI's) 1999 survey of astronomy (discussed in AAS CSWA, 2000) documented substantial growth in the field between 1992 and 1999 — a 33 percent increase in the number of Ph.D. astronomers active in 32 U.S. departments of astronomy and in four observatories with equivalent science faciScience Institute's (STScI's) 1999 survey of astronomy (discussed in AAS CSWA, 2000) documented substantial growth in the field between 1992 and 1999 — a 33 percent increase in the number of Ph.D. astronomers active in 32 U.S. departments of astronomy and in four observatories with equivalent science faciscience facilities.

JPL manages the U.S. Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry project for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee will hold a joint Subcommittee on Environment and Subcommittee on Space hearing titled Surveying the Space Weather Landscape.

Funding for work on both papers was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy - Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Program and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Despite its vital interest in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics skills of American students, the U.S. space agency is not reaching its potential as a resource for bolstering performance in those so - called STEM fields in K - 12 schools, a new congressionally mandated report concludes.

For example, for a science unit on space exploration, the teacher could create a TEASe on the history of space exploration and have students create a multimedia presentation persuading the U.S. government to either support or cease exploration of Mars.

What the Common Core standards have recommended are texts like Abraham Lincoln's «Gettysburg Address»; the U.S. Constitution; the Declaration of Independence; Winston Churchill's «Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat» speech; Ronald Reagan's speech to the students of Moscow University; and a plethora of texts on science and technology, including ones on space probes, elementary particles, architecture, and engineering.

The models were developed with support by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

A stunning investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology uncovered evidence that Russian agents -LSB-...]

In Issues, a long - time observer of science and society has also cited an even broader need to pay more attention to the oceans and their various functions, calling for the U.S. government to create a dedicated agency «to bolster ocean research and exploration the way that President Kennedy and NASA once led space research and «captured» the Moon.»

This report responds to an August 2014 request to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) from Representative Lamar Smith, Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for an analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan under which states would be required to develop plans to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rates from existing fossil - fired electricity generating units.1 Appendix A provides a copy of the request letter.

For months, Sullivan has been tangling with U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas and chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, as he investigates a climate change study done by NOAA scientists.»

«Testimony of John R. Christy University of Alabama in Huntsville» (PDF), U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology Feb 2, 2016.

Distinguished research professor at the Institute for Space Science and Technology, Gainesville, FL (1989 — 94); chief scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation (1987 — 89)

News cameras and long lines of people waiting to enter a packed hearing room are not the stuff of normal business carried out by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (House SST), which has a... Continue reading →

The «International Climate Conferences» provide a platform and meeting space for the small cadre of professional climate science deniers that have derailed meaningful solutions to the threats of global warming in the U.S.