The House Appropriations Committee is recommending that no funds be provided for planning robotic or crewed missions to asteroids as envisioned by President Obama’s Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). The committee’s …
The House Appropriations Committee encourages the FAA to enhance its processes to provide “security and predictability” to companies planning lunar development. It also urges the FAA to define “non-interference” in …
The House Appropriations Committee wants to increase the amount of FY2017 funding for NOAA’s commercial weather data pilot program both in comparison to the President’s request and to what its …
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of May 23-27, 2016 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session …
The House passed the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) a few hours ago. The bill, H.R. 4909, authorizes and recommends funding levels for national security space programs. The bill …
Andy Weir, author of the best selling book and movie The Martian, was the feature attraction himself today at a House hearing on deep space habitats. While representatives of NASA …
Lockheed Martin will announce today a proposal to send six people to Mars in 2028 using two of the company’s Orion capsules. They would not try to land on Mars, …
The House Appropriations Committee today released its draft FY2017 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) funding bill, which includes NASA and NOAA. NASA would get an even bigger boost — $19.5 billion — than …
The House Appropriations Committee approved the FY2017 defense appropriations bill today. It generally steers clear of the RD-180 controversy that is so prevalent in the other defense committees, approving the …
The draft FY2017 Transportation-HUD appropriations bill released by the House Appropriations Committee today provided only half of the requested increase for the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST). …