Recent congressional and public attention has focused on access problems at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, which provides medical care to servicemen and women once they have left active duty in a time of war or an official period of hostility. Although investigators note that improvements are under way, they say the VA has a long way to go. With this article
Nearly , active-duty personnel and reservists who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan’s Operation Enduring Freedom have been eligible for VA health care since healthhealth. More than health, have sought it out so far, the Congressional Budget Office reported in October.
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28 Nov 2007 | 6:00 pm | SPACE | No comments
More on Clinton’s Space Policy
Future Human Spaceflight - Democratic Candidate Launches a Position as Opponents Orbit From a Safe Distance, Washington Post
“The major presidential candidates pummel each other daily on issues ranging from the Iraq war to health care. But when it comes to President Bush’s ambitious initiative to send humans back to the moon and on to Mars, Sen.
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26 Nov 2007 | 10:17 pm | SPACE | No comments
GSFC Buyout Update
NASA Internal Memo: Goddard’s Buyout/Early Out Incentive Plan
“As you are aware, NASA is in the process of a major transformation designed to realign the Agency and implement the Vision for Space Exploration. To achieve this vision, NASA faces many challenges including re-shaping the NASA workforce to successfully meet changing mission requirements.
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21 Nov 2007 | 4:56 am | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments
Today’s Video: Ares V launch of large monolithic telescope
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this video depicting an Ares V launch of large monolithic telescope was included on NASA Watch a few weeks ago. The video has since been updated.
21 Nov 2007 | 3:16 am | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments
Obama Wants to Slash NASA’s Budget
Obama plan: reward teachers, lengthen school time, Baltimore Sun
“Barack Obama is planning to unveil an education plan today that would make affordable pre-school programs more widely available and offer pay incentive programs for effective teachers. It would also allow schools to lengthen the teaching day or the school year. The $18 billion annual program would be offset by savings and cuts in federal agencies, including NASA. …
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21 Nov 2007 | 12:08 am | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments
Thanksgiving
NASA Internal Memo: Message from the Administrator
“How many of us could take a lesson from these folks at MAF and apply it to our own work? Whether we do research, generate spreadsheets, solve equations, interpret the law, write code, do accounting, lay out wiring harnesses, calculate orbits, design structural elements, or whatever it is that we do, how many of us show the dedication to our work, without fanfare or expectation, that is demonstrated by this workforce at Michoud, technicians who spray and shape the foam on our shuttle external tanks?
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20 Nov 2007 | 9:47 pm | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments
Oleg Georgovitch Gazenko
Editor’s note: One of the pioneers of the space medicine, Academician Oleg Georgovitch Gazenko, passed away on 17 November 2007 after a serious illness.
20 Nov 2007 | 1:34 am | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments
NASA Gets Dragged Into Rep. Jefferson’s Legal Mess
Louisiana Rep. Jefferson Accused Anew, AP
Feds say case against Jefferson lists 2 more bribery schemes, Times Picayune
“Without naming the companies or individuals involved in the two additional alleged schemes, the Justice Department said that Jefferson, after agreeing to write a letter to NASA on behalf of a “Company H,” asked that a relative be hired as a consultant and that the relative receive a commission for certain sales and transactions in West Africa and Central Africa.
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19 Nov 2007 | 5:59 am | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments
