UPDATE, June 16, 2016: Sen. Murphy ended the filibuster at 2:11 am ET this morning after receiving assurances that votes would be allowed on his gun control amendments. ORIGINAL STORY, …
Three current and former astronauts, NASA’s Chief Medical Officer and a medical ethicist told a congressional committee today that the U.S. Government has an ethical obligation to provide lifetime medical …
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) brokered an agreement among Senators who have been at sharp odds over how to transition U.S. rocket launches away from reliance on Russian RD-180 engines to …
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA officials highlighted their decades of cooperation in space science and opportunities for the future at a day-long symposium on Friday. The long-planned meeting …
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of June 13-18, 2016 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session …
Antonio (Tony) Busalacchi, Jr., the incoming President of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), called for a Decadal Survey to set a strategy for the U.S. weather forecasting enterprise …
Services for Patti Grace Smith will be held in Washington, DC on Monday, June 13. One of the most prominent members of the space policy community, Smith died of pancreatic …
Russian space state corporation Roscosmos formally announced today that the next crew launch to the International Space Station (ISS) is postponed until July 7. Russia’s news agency TASS reported a …
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of June 6-10, 2016 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session …
The Government of Luxembourg is staking 200 million Euros to kick-start the nascent space resources utilization business — prospecting for and eventually mining and selling resources extracted from the Moon, …