Human Space Flight Review Committee press conference today (Thursday)

[bananas]

and the report will be posted to the committee's web site.
Also, Buzz Aldrin is blogging at the Huffington Post (see below).

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS173958+19-Oct-2009+PRN20091019

Human Space Flight Review Committee Report Available Thursday

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Human Space Flight Review
Committee Chairman Norman Augustine will hold a press conference at 1 p.m.
EDT, on Thursday, Oct. 22, in the Zenger Room of the National Press Club, 529
14th St. NW, in Washington.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO)

Augustine will be accompanied by committee member Ed Crawley. Printed copies
of the committee's final report will be available during the press conference
and an electronic copy of the report will be posted to the committee's Web
site at the start of the briefing.

For committee information, materials, presentations and biographies, visit:

http://hsf.nasa.gov

The press conference will be broadcast on NASA Television's media channel and
streamed on the agency's Web site at:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information about NASA and agency activities, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/buzz-aldrin/mr-president-will-you-lea_b_328975.html

Mr. President, Will You Lead Us to Greatness in Space?
Buzz Aldrin
Posted: October 21, 2009 03:36 PM

The roadmap is now complete. Today the commission formed to provide President Barack Obama with a series of potential pathways to America's future in space has delivered its final report. Officials in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP, as they say in Washington) received the report from my friend Chairman Norm Augustine, and have begun the formal process of reviewing the analysis it contains. The plan is for President Barack Obama to select one of the "options" for America's future in space that the plan lays out-or none at all or something else entirely.

For me, one option is superior to all the rest. A review of that option -- called by Norm the "flexible path" -- will be the subject of this week's blog. In future blogs, I'll explain some of the other elements of this important report, especially in terms of new heavy lift boosters and the use of commercial providers to send our crews to the space station. This is a report that should be read and digested by all Americans. But now, let's talk about flexible path.

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America, will you urge the president to pick a bold new mission for our nation in space? Call or text the president at 202-456-1111 or Switchboard: 202-456-1414. or email him at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact.

In Twitter-friendly style, ask him this simple but profound question: Mr. President, will you lead us to greatness in space?

All Americans await his answer. For me, it is clear:
Ad Astra-per aspera! ("To the stars with difficulty!)

[Phoonzang]

1. Finally.

I hope it doesn't take too long for the President to make his decision. I'm on pins and needles here! If the White House starts making noises about Earth Sciences, you know it's all over.

[Posteritatis]

2. Ugh, the HuffPo comments make even DU look pro-science

Lot of myopic, zero-summing idiots there. A lot here, too, but way more there. Ugh.

[Phoonzang]

3. But...but...we need to fix EVERYTHING on Earth before ruining

other planets by...I don't know...studying them or something. It's a choice between paradise on Earth or big toys designed by the evil-corporatist-military-blarrrg being used to destroy the pristine, unpolluted, radiation-free environment of space.

I guess I don't need to put this but I will: :sarcasm: