John M. Logsdon: John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

The Dallas Morning News recently mentioned John M. Logsdon this way:

The Rockwall Republican, the longest-serving Texan in Congress , will finally ascend next year to the plum position that most lawmakers never get to enjoy: committee chairman. The oldest member of Congress will chair the most future-looking panel of them all, the House Science and Technology Committee. The committee's agenda is highly technical but central to building a competitive economy and skilled workforce. Its jurisdiction includes scientific research and education, space exploration, clean energy innovation and climate change research. Hall said that Elon Musk, the founder of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and other major space contractors would be asked to testify before his committee. SpaceX successfully launched its first test capsule last week from Cape Canaveral in Florida. John M. Logsdon, a space policy expert at George Washington University, said Hall's committee also will have to monitor NASA's progress on a deep-space rocket and crew capsule that must be built by 2016. "I can say with a fair degree of assurance that NASA is finding it technically and financially difficult to meet some of the targets in the authorization bill," Logsdon said. "I would expect him to raise some of the questions to NASA about how they are planning on going forward," he said.

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