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Update, March 27: Sunday's virtual media briefing with the astronauts in now at 11:30 am ET instead of 9:30 am ET. Original Entry: NASA is planning to launch Artemis II, the first crewed launch around the Moon since the Apollo era, on April 1, 2026. Weather or technical issues could delay the launch, but the …
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The crew of Artemis II will hold a virtual media briefing from their quarantine facilities at Kennedy Space Center on March 29, 2026 at 11:30 am ET (originally 9:30 am ET). They arrived at KSC on March 27 in advance of their scheduled launch on April 1. The launch window is open through April 6. …
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NASA is holding a series of events leading up to the launch of Artemis II on April 1, 2026. Times are subject to change. Check NASA's website for updates, but as of March 28, a news conference is scheduled for tomorrow, March 29, at 2:00 pm ET that will air on NASA's YouTube channel. |
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Uzcosmos will hold the STC 2026 Central Eurasia Space Technology Conference from March 30-April 1, 2026 at the International Hotel in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. More information is on the event's website, which says:
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Virgin Galactic will hold its 4th quarter 2025 and full year 2025 financial results telecon on March 30, 2026 at 2:00 pm Pacific Time (5:00 pm Eastern). More information and the telecon link are on the company's website.
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NASA is holding a series of events leading up to the launch of Artemis II on April 1, 2026. Times are subject to change. Check NASA’s website for updates, but as of March 28, a news conference is scheduled for March 30, 2026 at 5:00 pm following the Mission Management Team (MMT) meeting that will air on …
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The International Space University - USA Alumni Association’s Washington, DC Chapter (ISU-DC) will hold its next Space Café on March 30, 2026. The speakers are Marcella Kneppers, Senior Advisor for Innovation, Science, and Technology, and Bastiaan van den Berg, Counselor for Transportation and Environment, at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Washington, … |
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA) will hold a webinar on March 31, 2026 from 16:00-17:30 CEST (10:00-11:30 am EDT). The topic is "Direct to Device Regulation: Paving the Way for Satellite 5G/6G." More information is on the event's website, which says: ITU SPACE CONNECT – 2026 Episode 2, …
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Space News will hold a webinar on March 31, 2026 from 1:00-1:45 pm ET sponsored by Star Catcher and in partnership with the Commercial Space Federation on "The Energy Imperative Driving the Push Toward Orbital Data Centers." Participants are: Andrew Rush, CEO, Star Catcher Daniel King, Research Fellow, Foundation for American Innovation Moderator: Jason Rainbow, …
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NASA is holding a series of events leading up to the launch of Artemis II on April 1, 2026. Times are subject to change. Check NASA’s website for updates, but as of March 28, a pre-launch news conference is scheduled for March 31, 2026 at 1:00 pm that will air on NASA’s YouTube channel. |
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NASA is planning to launch the four-person Artemis II crew around the Moon on April 1, 2026 at 6:24 pm ET (the opening of a two-hour launch window that day). The launch can take place any day through April 6 if weather or technical problems intervene. In the event of a last minute scrub on …
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The Mitchell Institute will hold its 4th Annual Spacepower Security Forum on April 1, 2026 at the Army Navy Country Club, 1700 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA, from 9:00-3:00 pm ET. More information and the agenda are on the event's website, which says: The Mitchell Institute is hosting its Fourth Annual Spacepower Security Forum on … |
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The Association of Commercial Space Professionals (ACSP) and the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) will hold a seminar on April 2, 2026 at 1201 F St., NW, Washington, DC from 8:00-5:00 pm ET. The topic is: Nuclear Launch Seminar. More information and the agenda are on the event's website, which says: The Association of Commercial Space …
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Following the successful launch of the Artemis II mission that is taking NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, NASA is providing 24/7 coverage on its YouTube website, daily press briefings that will air on … |
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Following the successful launch of the Artemis II mission that is taking NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, NASA is providing 24/7 coverage on its YouTube website, daily press briefings that will air on … |
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Following the successful launch of the Artemis II mission that is taking NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, NASA is providing 24/7 coverage on its YouTube website, daily press briefings that will air on … |
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Update, April 4: NASA says this April 5 press conference now will take place at 6:30 pm EDT (5:30 pm Central) instead of 3:30 pm EDT. Original Entry: Following the successful launch of the Artemis II mission that is taking NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy … |
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Update, April 5: Coverage now will begin at 1:00 pm ET instead of 12:45 pm ET. Times for all of the Artemis events are subject to change. Keep up to date by checking "NASA Sets Coverage for Artemis II Moon Mission," originally published on March 25, but continually updated. As of today, April 5, this … |
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DSI will hold the 6th Assured PNT Summit from April 7-8, 2026 at the National Housing Center, 1201 15th St., NW, Washington, DC. It is "No Press. No Recordings. Chatham House Rule." More information is on the event's website, which says: Defense Strategies Institute’s 6th Annual Assured PNT Summit will convene leaders from the military services, … The 5th IAA Conference on Space Situational Awareness (ICSSA) will take place April 7-9, 2026 in Tres Cantos, Spain in the community of Madrid. More information is on the event's website.
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Update, April 5: The updated participants list is: Original Entry: The Beyond Earth Institute (BEI) will hold a webinar on April 7, 2026 from 1:00-2:00 pm ET on "Minding the LEO Gap and the Future of Commercial Space Stations." More information and registration instructions are on the event's website, which says: We invite you to …
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Update, April 7: The time has changed from 4:00 pm ET to 4:30 pm ET. Original Entry: Following the successful launch of the Artemis II mission that is taking NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo … |
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The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) will hold a CLASSIFIED breakfast meeting on April 8, 2026 from 8:00-10:15 am ET on "Securing Space: Threats, Intelligence, and Warfighting Advantage." Participants must have a TS/SI/TK clearance. The meeting will take place at Peraton, 15052 Conference Center Dr., Chantilly, VA. More information is on the event's website, …
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Update, April 7: The time for this event has changed from 3:30 pm ET to 5:00 pm ET. Check NASA's continually- updated list of events for further updates. Original Entry: Following the successful launch of the Artemis II mission that is taking NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency …
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and others will speak with the Artemis II crew, which is on its way back to Earth from the Moon, on April 8, 2026 at 7:00 pm ET. The event will air on the Canadian Space Agency's Facebook and YouTube pages. CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen is one of the four …
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Media will have a chance to talk to the Artemis II astronauts, who are in cislunar space on their way back to Earth from visiting the Moon, on Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 9:45 pm ET. The 20-minute virtual news conference will air on NASA’s YouTube channel. More information is in NASA's press release. NASA's Reid Wiseman, … |
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MIT's Sloan Space Industry Club will hold the 11th New Space Age Conference on April 9, 2026 at MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst St, Bldg E14, Cambridge, MA from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm ET. The theme is: Space as the Next Frontier -- How Earth Industry is Preparing for Orbit and Beyond." More information …
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Update, April 9: A 7:50 pm ET live downlink is now on NASA's list of events for today and Sen. Maria Cantwell's office issued a media advisory that she will speak with the astronauts at that time. Update, April 7: The latest list of events for April 9 does not include the 5:59 pm ET … |
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Update, April 9, and Clarification: NASA is providing 24/7 live coverage of the mission on its YouTube channel. On splashdown day, coverage on NASA+ begins at 6:30 pm ET in addition. The time for the post-splashdown news conference is now shown as 10:30 pm ET instead of 10:35 pm ET on NASA's list of events. … |
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Update, April 8: Launch has been delayed another day due to weather and is now scheduled for April 11 at 7:41 am ET. Update, April 7: The launch has been delayed two days due to weather. Now April 10 at 8:03 am ET, with arrival at ISS on April 11 at 11:39 pm ET. Update, … |
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Yuri's Night is celebrated by space aficionados around the world on April 12 every year (or thereabouts) to commemorate the launch of the first human being in space -- the Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. Coincidentally, April 12, 1981 is the anniversary of the first launch of the U.S. space shuttle (it … |
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The Space Foundation will hold the 41st Space Symposium at The Broadmoor Hotel & Cheyenne Mountain Resort, Colorado Springs, CO from April 13-16, 2026. More information is on the event's website. The Legal Subcommittee of the U.N. Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) will meet April 13-24, 2026 in Vienna, Austria. Check the COPUOUS website for up-to-date information. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) will hold the Earth and Space 2026 Conference from April 13-16, 2026 at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. More information is on the event's website, which says: The 20 ASCE ASD Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments (Earth & Space …
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Northrop Grumman's Cygnus-24 cargo ship successfully launched on April 11, 2026 at 7:41 am ET after a several-day weather delay. It's the second launch of an upgraded version of Cygnus, Cygnus XL, and is delivering 11,000 pounds of research experiments, equipment and supplies for the ISS crew. It will arrive at the International Space Station … |
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Update, April 11: The meeting has been rescheduled for April 14, 2026 at 10:00 am ET in 253 Russell Senate Office Buildng. It will be webcast on the committee's website. Update, March 27: No Democrats attended the March 25 markup so the committee could not conduct any votes. Ranking Member Cantwell said: Unprecedent and unfair. … |
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The House Budget Committee will hold a hearing on President Trump's FY2027 budget request on April 15, 2026 at 10:15 am ET in 210 Cannon House Office Building. The hearing will be webcast on the committee's website and YouTube. The witness is Russell Vought, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). …
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The Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) will hold a hearing on April 15, 2026 in 2118 Rayburn House Office Building at 3:00 pm ET on "FY27 Missile Defense and Missile Defeat Programs and Activities." The hearing will be webcast on the committee's website. Witnesses are: The Honorable Marc Berkowitz Assistant …
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The Subcommittee on Readiness of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) will hold a hearing on April 15, 2026 at 3:30 pm ET in 2212 Rayburn House Office Building on "Military Readiness for FY27." The hearing will be webcast on the committee's website. Witnesses include Gen. Shawn Bratton, Vice Chief of Space Operations, U.S. Space … |
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The House Intelligence Committee's Subcommittee on Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture will hold a CLOSED hearing on April 16, 2026 in HVC-304 Capitol on the FY2027 budget requests for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the U.S. Space Force. Witnesses are: Christopher Scolese, Director, NRO Lt. Gen. Michelle Bredenkamp, Director, …
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The Senate Budget Committee will hold a hearing on President Trump's FY2027 budget request on April 16, 2026 at 10:00 am ET in 608 Dirksen Senate Office Building. The hearing will be webcast on the committee's website. The witness is Russell Vought, Director, White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
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The crew of Artemis II -- NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen -- will hold a post-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center on April 16, 2026 at 2:30 pm ET. NASA will livestream it on YouTube.
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The House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Military Personnel will hold a posture hearing with military department personnel chiefs, including Katherine Kelley, USSF Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Personnel, on April 16, 2026 in 2118 Rayburn House Office Building at 3:00 pm ET. The hearing will be webcast on the committee's website. Witnesses are: … |
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The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) will hold the 24th Humans in Space Symposium from April 20-24, 2026 in Montecatini, Italy. More information is on the event's website, which says: We are pleased to invite you to save the date for the next IAA Human in Space Symposium to be held on April 20-24, 2026 …
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NASA will roll out the largest part of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the next Artemis mission, Artemis III, from the Michoud Assembly Facility in eastern New Orleans, LA on April 20, 2026. More information is in NASA's press release. The time was not included. Referred to as the Top Four-Fifths or TFF …
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will hold a conversation with Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee's Strategic Forces Subcommittee, on April 20, 2026 from 9:30-10:30 am ET. The topic is: "Strategic Forces Priorities." More information is on the event's website, which says:
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UPDATE, April 17: The agenda is posted. The meeting is from 12:30 pm-2:45 pm ET. Original Entry: NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) will hold a virtual meeting on April 20, 2026. The agenda was not posted as of April 12. Check the OPAG website for the time of the meeting and other information. NASA’s …
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The Committee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will hold a virtual meeting on April 20, 2026 from 3:00-4:00 pm ET to follow-up on the presentation made by NASA during the Academies Space Science Week on "Heliophysics Division Strategic Planning and R&A Reorganization." The meeting will … |
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Update, April 9: The meeting will take place and the agenda is posted. Update, February 7: NASA's Planetary Science Division has decided to terminate support for all of its Analysis/Assessment Groups, or AGs, at the end of April 2026. This April 21-23 meeting apparently will still take place, but check the MEPAG website for up …
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will hold an event on April 21, 2026 from 8:30 am-11:10 am ET at their offices at 1616 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Washington DC. It will be livestreamed. The theme is "Space and The Future of Warfare" and begins with a fireside chat with Gen. Stephen Whiting, …
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The Mitchell Institute will hold the next Schriever Spacepower Series webinar on April 21, 2026 from 10:30-11:30 am ET. The topic is Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI) and the speakers are Col. Corey Klopstein, Program Executive Officer for OTTI and Commander of System Delta 81, and Col. Craig Hackbarth, Director of Capability for OTTI, …
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NASA will unveil the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD on April 21, 2026. The telescope is being built there. Originally called the Wide-Field Infrared Space Telescope or WFIRST, it was later named in honor of NASA's first chief astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman. The launch date has not … |
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UPDATE, April 12: The new dates are April 22-23, 2026. The time is still 11:00 am-5:00 pm ET each day. UPDATE: The website now says the date is "TBA." The government was closed in the D.C. area on January 26 and 27 due to a snowstorm, but it doesn't say if that's the reason. Original …
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The House Science, Space, and Technology (SS&T) Committee will hold a hearing on NASA's FY2027 budget request on April 22, 2026 at 10:00 am ET in 2318 Rayburn House Office Building. The witness is NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
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The Senate Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Department of Commerce's FY2027 budget request on April 22, 2026 at 10:00 am ET in 192 Dirksen Senate Office Building. The witness is Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. More information is on the committee's website, where it will be livestreamed.
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Boeing will hold its 1st Quarter 2026 financial earnings telecon on April 22, 2026 at 10:30 am ET. Audio will be available on the company's investor's website.
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The Washington Space Business Roundtable (WSBR) will hold its next luncheon on April 22, 2026 from 11:30 am-1:30 pm ET at Novel DC, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC. The speaker is NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Nicky Fox. More information and registration instructions are on the event's website. |
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Lockheed Martin will hold its 1st Quarter 2026 financial earnings telecon on April 23, 2026, at 8:30 am ET. Audio will be available on the company's investor's website.
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GSOA will hold a webinar on April 23, 2026 at 10:00 am ET to discuss "Direct-to-Device & Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) Commercialisation: Scaling Satellite Services in 2026 and Beyond." More information is on the event's website, which says: Direct-to-Device (D2D) and Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) are moving from trials into real-world services. As satellite and mobile come …
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The House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee will hold a hearing on the FY2027 budget request for the Department of Commerce, which includes NOAA, on April 23, 2026 at 11:00 am ET in 2358-A Rayburn House Office Building. The witness is Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. More information is on the committee's website, where the hearing … |
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NOAA's 2026 Space Weather Workshop will take place April 27-May 1, 2026 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Boulder in Boulder, CO. More information is on the event's website, which says: This Year's Theme: Space Weather & Society: Transforming Services & Science to Meet User Needs Workshop Objective Space Weather Workshop is an annual gathering that … |
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The 2026 spring meeting of the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) will take place in two venues April 28-30, 2026. April 28 is at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC. April 29-30, is at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, MD. More information is on the event's website, … |
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NASA's International Space Station Advisory Committee will have a public meeting on April 29, 2026 via webinar (Microsoft Teams) and telephone "to review aspects related to the safety and operational readiness of the International Space Station." According to NASA as of April 14, 2026, the members are: Chairman Col. Robert D. Cabana, USMC (Ret.) Members …
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The Washington Space Business Roundtable will host a webinar on April 29, 2026 from 3:00-4:00 pm ET to hear from space reporters following Satellite 2026 and the Space Foundation's Space Symposium. Panelists include: Marjorie Censer, AerospaceAmerica Mike Gruss, Space News Rachel Jewett, Via Satellite Vivienne Machi, Aviation Week Moderated by Kathy Stershic, W2 Communications More … |
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As of April 13, the House Appropriations Committee plans to markup the FY2027 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) bill that funds NASA and NOAA (part of the Department of Commerce) at 8:00 am ET on April 30. Full committee markup is planned for May 13 at 11:00 am ET. THE SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Check the committee's … |
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The Air and Space Forces Association (AFA) will hold a virtual event on May 1, 2026 at 3:00 pm ET on "Salute to Space: The Legacy of Gen. Bernard Schriever." More information is on the event's website, which says as of April 12: |
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