Details of FY 2006 Cuts
ROSES-06 Amendment 5: Adjustments in ROSES-2006 to align with the NASA budget, NASA HQ “Specifically the proposed FY07 budget includes a 15% reduction for R&A in most disciplines and a 50%...
View ArticleNASA HQ Sends Out The Bad News
Funding Notification Sent out by NASA Headquarters to Astrobiology Investigators, NASA HQ “By now you will probably have received notification that there will not be an Exobiology solicitation in...
View ArticleAstrobiology Program Cutback Status
NASA Astrobiology Program Status, NASA HQ “Even at the requested FY07 funding level we will be able to support a vigorous program of astrobiology research and some technology development. Obviously,...
View ArticleNASA Astrobiology in Peril – Update and Action Suggestions
NASA Astrobiology in Peril – Update and Action Suggestions, SETI Institute “Dear Members of the Astrobiology Community: We are writing to you again to offer some thoughts and suggestions in advance of...
View ArticleNASA Astrobiology PI's Speak Out
Astrobiology Serves NASA and The National Interest – Statement Prepared by Principal Investigators of the NASA Astrobiology Institute “Astrobiology is the interdisciplinary study of the origins,...
View ArticleAbSciCon Report
U.S. Astrobiologists Convene Biannual Conference Amid Devastating NASA Budget Threats, SETI Institute “Although astrobiology is clearly one of the most exciting and productive programs in the space...
View ArticleWhat Griffin Thinks – and the Academy Says – About Astrobiology
Outspoken: Mike Griffin on the NASA budget,” Nature Deep cuts to NASA astrobiology – Griffin: “I did think astrobiology was less important than traditional space science. It had less intrinsic subject...
View ArticleNAC Planetary Science Subcommitee Report Comments on Astrobiology
Report of the NASA Advisory Council Planetary Science Subcommittee “The cuts to the astrobiology Program, apparently made in the absence of advice from the scientific community, are particularly...
View ArticleGriffin In Science and Nature on Budget Cuts
NASA Budget: Crisis Deepens as Scientists Fail to Rejigger Space Research, Science “… and NASA Administrator Michael Griffin in accepts a portion of the blame. “I made a mistake,” Griffin told NASA’s...
View ArticleNAC Science Committee Presentation
NASA Advisory Council Science Committee Presentation 18 May 2006 Astrobiology – These scientific investigations support NASA’s strategic goals. In addition, this program is particularly attractive to...
View ArticleNRC On Value of Astrobiology
An Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs, National Research Council “[Page 20]: “The decadal surveys for astrophysics and for solar system exploration both embraced astrobiology as a key...
View ArticlePlanetary Society Mounts Unprecedented Ad Campaign To Fight NASA Space...
Campaign Update: The Planetary Society Takes the Fight to Washington “In contrast to Kennedy’s vision, the fiscal year 2007 budget proposed for NASA contains cuts that threaten to end the era of...
View ArticleAstrobiology 2.0
Saving Astrobiology at NASA “Astrobiology emerged at a time when NASA was in a state of flux and ARC and other field centers were faced with possible closure or drastic cutbacks. The community that...
View ArticlePrincipal Investigator Lessons Learned Workshop Presentations
Presentations and papers from the recent NASA Principal Investigator Lessons Learned workshop are now available on the Science Mission Directorate website:...
View ArticleNRC Speaks Out On Astrobiology's Value
NRC Report: An Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs Astrobiology: NASA’s astrobiology program is built around three overarching scientific questions: 1. How does life begin and evolve? 2....
View ArticleReversal of Science Cuts Possible
Email Memo from Senate Appropriations Committee Staff Regarding Mikulski – Hutchison Amendment on NASA FY 2007 Budget “The amendment they will offer in Committee will provide $1 billion to the NASA...
View ArticleSaving Astrobiology
SETI Institute to Announce New Astrobiology Center – The Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe “On Tuesday, October 17, the SETI Institute will unveil a new center to study life in...
View ArticleAstrobiology Update
Director’s Corner – Message from NASA Astrobiology Institute Director Carl Pilcher, NAI “The clearest expression that astrobiology doesn’t “measure up” comes from the Administrator of NASA himself,...
View ArticleSpace Science Update
Comments by NAS Space Studies Board Chair Lennard Fisk, NAS “There is consternation these days between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its external science community. In...
View ArticleBio-techno-signature Monitoring and Communication Guideposts for...
Abstract — Attendees at the First Penn State SETI Symposium collaborated to develop guideposts for monitoring for and communicating with extraterrestrial life. Over the course of six hours of...
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