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Congress Holds the Purse Strings
The debate is by no means over – it just will shift venues. Congress holds the purse strings – and the Constellation program has some very powerful supporters on both sides of the building and both sides of the aisle. … Continue reading
Tagged Alabama, Bill Nelson, Florida, Human spaceflight, Richard Shelby, Space, United States, United States CongressObama Ponders the Future of Human Space Flight
My name is Miles O’Brien and and I drive a truck. Now can I go to the Senate – and insist our space program gets a little more scratch – so we can once again scratch the surface of another … Continue reading
Tagged Bill Nelson, David Axelrod, Democratic, Houston, Low Earth orbit, NASA, President of the United States, Space, United States SenateOrlando Sentinel – Nelson's "iron will" leads to NASA frontrunner
Orlando Sentinel – Nelson’s “iron will” leads to NASA frontrunner. If retired Marine Corps Gen. and former astronaut Charlie Bolden emerges as the next NASA administrator he has one man to thank for it: Florida’s senior Democratic Senator Bill Nelson. Nelson … Continue reading
Tagged Astronaut, Bill Nelson, Florida, NASA, Orlando Sentinel, Space, Technology, United StatesNASA's next administrator ready to launch: Charles Bolden
The stories you read about Charlie Bolden getting the nod as the next NASA Administrator have a good deal of truthiness to them. He is apparently teed up for the nation’s premier space management gig, but that said, I am … Continue reading
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Science for Sale »
posted March 13, 2013 by Miles O'Brien
HINKLEY, Calif. – We all love a neat, tidy Hollywood ending to a David and Goliath story. Sadly, in the real world, they are hard to come by. More often than not, the little guy might win a battle, but Goliath prevails over the long haul — winning the war.
Before I went to Hinkley, I did, of course, watch the movie once again. As it turns out Erin Brockovich is accurate in many respects.
You might remember the woman who gets a big check at the end of the movie after the down-on-her-luck, crusading legal assistant has brought a giant utility to its knees for polluting the groundwater beneath the tiny desert town half way between L.A. and Las Vegas.
In the movie, she was known as Donna Jensen (and played by Marg Helgenberger). There is no real-life Donna Jensen — the details of her story are a composite of several real-life travails.
But Roberta Walker was the main inspiration. Naturally, it was not long after I met her that I asked her what she thought of the movie.
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He is the Science Correspondent for PBS NewsHour, and a regular correspondent for the PBS documentary series FRONTLINE and the National Science Foundation Science Nation series.
For nearly seventeen of his thirty years in the news business, he worked for CNN as the Science and Space Correspondent and the anchor of various programs, including American Morning.
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