Aldridge Commission Meeting Today at Noon

05/02/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

The Aldridge Commission posted the agenda for todays meeting which starts at 1:00. A few items of note are

• Dr. Tether from DARPA who will surely get the “Does NASA need its own DARPA questions”.
• The space organization crowd: NSS, Federation of Galaxy Explorers, Association of Space Explorers, and the Planetary Society.
• Boeing gets its own segment on Sustainability and Management?
• The Prosperity and Resource Development section seems interesting: SpaceVest, Princeton Synergetics, and Morgan Stanley.
• After the press conference the commission will hold public deliberations for possibly an hour.

Their report is due in early June so they have roughly 1 month to get it to the Whitehouse so we might be able to deduce some direction from the public discussion. As usual I will be providing live commentary on the #arocket IRC channel. (I'm also upgrading my main workstation to Fedora Core 1 from Mandrake 9.0 so I may be doing all of this from my laptop. Wish me luck!)