Congress reached agreement on a FY2016 appropriations bill overnight. NASA will get $19.285 billion, $785 million more than the President’s request and $1.285 billion more than FY2015. Division B (Commerce-Justice-Science) …
NOAA got an early Christmas present overnight as Congress reached agreement on a final FY2016 appropriations bill. The Polar Follow On (PFO) will get its full $370 million funding request …
UPDATE, December 15, 2015, 8:50 pm EST: The crew successfully docked with ISS a bit later than expected because of a problem with the Kurs automated docking system. Soyuz TMA-19M …
A key Member of Congress and two congressional staff expounded on congressional intent in the recently enacted commercial space law at a space law and policy conference in Washington, D.C. …
Here’s our list of upcoming space policy events (updated December 14 to add a link to the list of AGU sessions that will be livestreamed). This version covers the three …
Congress passed a 5-day extension to the deadline for funding the government for the rest of the fiscal year today. The bill, H.R. 2250, passed the House by voice vote. …
Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), chair of the House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee, which funds NASA, insists that NASA did not comply with the law when it participated in a State …
SpaceX will launch four Falcon 9 missions from two coasts in two months if tentative plans coming into focus today prove out. It all begins with a December 16 static …
SpaceX announced today that it will conduct a static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket that will be used to launch 11 ORBCOMM OG2 satellites on December 16. If …
In response to a SpacePolicyOnline.com FOIA request, NASA today provided two letters that it sent to Rep. John Culberson prior to a September 28, 2015 bilateral meeting with China to …