Dr. Klinkrad at ESA is now leading an international space commission that is assessing debris-removal possibilities.
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Rumsfeld was joined by members of the congressionally-mandated Space Commission that he headed until December, when he stepped down because of his nomination to be defense secretary.
That has come down from roughly 40m euros per spacecraft when they were first engaged to do the job by the European Commission and the European Space Agency.
Ms. Ride also was on the commission that investigated the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
He also served on the Rogers Commission which investigated causes behind the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.
And the first man to leave footprints in the lunar dust, Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong -- aside from geologist Schmitt, the only other civilian in the collection of moonwalkers -- later sat on several corporate boards and the presidential commission that investigated the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster.
Open Discovery Space (ODS), funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT-PSP call 5, and kicked off in Athens in April 2012, is the result of collaboration between 51 organizations from 23 countries, with the aim to create a socially-powered, multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adaptation of eLearning Resources in Europe.
This new influx of money could give Florida a leg up in the space race, yet Tom Moser of the Texas Aerospace Commission will not entertain such an idea.
As I noted last week, Google has been ramping up its spending in the clean energy space, after receiving permission from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to buy and sell energy at market rates.
The UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy), is associated with the Open Discovery Space (ODS) project, funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT-PSP call 5, and kicked off in Athens in April 2012, resulting of the collaboration between 51 organizations from 23 countries, with the aim to create a socially-powered, multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adaptation of eLearning Resources in Europe.
Until recently his company produced games on commission, to be distributed by publishers with lots of warehouse space and links to retailers.
However the European Commission - which jointly runs the project along with the European Space Agency - wants to create a separate "GMES Fund", which would receive financial contributions from all member states based on their Gross National Income.
Unfortunately, Congress did not provide funds for the Commission to hire the additional employees or to pay for the additional space.
The Commission has been openly pursuing a larger role in regulating the online space, an effort which has run into resistance from regulated entities as well as the federal courts.
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Viewed as a respected author and a renowned expert on Mars, Dr. Zubrin has testified in recent years before several government committees and in 2009 spoke in front of the Augustine Commission on the subject of the future of America's human space flight program.
So it is with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the United States Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
Last May, they announced a plan to merge their space-launch operations into a new venture, the United Launch Alliance, and the Federal Trade Commission is expected to approve the deal sometime this month.
Since there are new uses but not new space, planning is necessary, said Charles Ehler, another co-principal investigator at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.
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