Blue Origin to Test In-Flight Escape System Next Week – UPDATE
Update, October 3, 2016: The test has been postponed by one day, to October 5, due to bad weather. Original story, September 30, 2016: Blue Origin President Jeff Bezos announced …
Congress Votes to Keep Government Open Through December 9
The Senate and House both passed a FY2017 Continuing Resolution (CR) today that will keep the government operating through December 9, 2016. Without it, government agencies would have had to …
Memorial Service for Dick Malow on October 3 in Washington, DC
A memorial service will be held on October 3, 2016 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC for Dick Malow, a legendary House Appropriations Committee staff member who had …
Musk Shares Technical Details of His Dream for Mars Colonization
Elon Musk has made no secret of his passion to make humanity a multiplanetary species by creating a self-sustaining society on Mars as a backup plan in case Earth is …
Thomas Zurbuchen Appointed As New Head of Science at NASA
NASA announced today that the new Associate Administrator (AA) for the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is Thomas Zurbuchen, professor of space science and aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan …
More Clues, But Still No Certainty, About Europa Plumes
Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have collected and analyzed data that offer more evidence — but not certainty — that plumes of water vapor are escaping from the ocean …
What's Happening in Space Policy September 26-30, 2016
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of September 26-30, 2016 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session …
SpaceX Knows What Happened on September 1, But Not Why
SpaceX is still studying 3,000 channels of engineering data to determine the root cause of the September 1 on-pad fire that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and the Amos-6 communications …
Aerojet Rocketdyne Makes Case for AR1
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Jim Simpson made the case for the new AR1 rocket engine yesterday explaining that its conservative design and low cost will meet mission assurance and affordability objectives desired …
Senate Commerce and House SS&T Committees Approve Space Bills
The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee each held markups today of space-related legislation. The Senate committee approved the 2016 NASA Transition …