Editor’s Note: The American Astronautical Society’s Goddard Memorial Symposium included a panel discussion on “Evolution of a Space Policy: How to Achieve Consensus.” It was an interesting discussion that ordinarily …
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said yesterday that “DOD is at a crossroads for space” and faces several major challenges as it tries to change its approach to space acquisitions. …
NASA’s next mission to Mars, InSight, will get a second chance, with launch now scheduled for May 2018. It was supposed to launch this month, but a vacuum leak in …
Wanda Austin, President and CEO of the Aerospace Corporation, has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 Yvonne C. Brill Lectureship. Sponsored the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics …
President Obama’s Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) will not meet the 2025 date he set for the program in 2010. ARM Program Director Michele Gates told a NASA Advisory Council (NAC) …
A coalition of 13 U.S. space industry organizations released a white paper on March 4 to help presidential and other political candidates understand the need for ensuring U.S. leadership in …
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of March 7-11, 2016 and any insight we can offer about them. The Senate is in session this week; …
At a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) today, SASC chairman John McCain (R-Arizona) and Secretary of the Air Force (SecAF) Deborah Lee James engaged in a feisty …
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returned to his home in Houston, TX in the early hours this morning (March 3) Eastern Standard Time. He stood before family, friends, colleagues and TV …
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth tonight (March 1) aboard the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft after 340 days in space. NASA bills the mission as …