NOAA is moving forward in implementing a congressional directive to conduct a pilot project to purchase commercial weather data and assess the viability of incorporating it into NOAA’s numerical weather models. …
As promised, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) released a final draft of his American Space Renaissance Act (ASRA) at the Space Symposium today. It will be officially introduced in the House …
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, renowned physicists Stephen Hawking and Freeman Dyson, and former NASA Ames Center Director Pete Worden were among the members of a high profile group that announced …
Just days after his experimental Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) successfully reached the International Space Station (ISS), Robert Bigelow is calling on NASA to attach a full-sized B330 module to …
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is looking for a public policy expert who would join the Directorate via an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) agreement. Applicants must be from an IPA-eligible …
Here is our list of space policy related events for the week of April 11-15, 2016 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate both are …
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) said very late yesterday that the launch of the next Atlas V rocket is now delayed indefinitely. ULA is investigating what went wrong on the …
SpaceX accomplished not only a successful launch today, but its first successful landing of the Falcon 9 first stage on an autonomous drone ship out at sea. Although the company …
SpaceX’s eighth operational commercial cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX CRS-8 (or SpX-8), is on track for launch tomorrow at 4:43 pm ET from Cape Canaveral, FL. …
John Grunsfeld, NASA’s Associate Administrator (AA) for the Science Mission Directorate (SMD), is retiring from the agency on April 30. In a NASA press release he joked that he is …