Senate Passes Budget/Debt Limit Deal – UPDATE
UPDATE, November 2, 2015: President Obama signed the bill into law today. ORIGINAL STORY, October 30, 2015: At about 3:00 am ET this morning (October 30), the Senate passed the …
NASA Unable To Determine Root Cause of Last Year's Orb-3 Failure
One year and a day after Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket exploded shortly after liftoff, NASA released an executive summary of its independent review of the event. The rocket was …
Elachi Will Retire from JPL Next Year
Charles Elachi, Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), announced today that he will retire in June 2016 after 15 years in that position and a total of 45 years …
House and Senate Reach Agreement on Commercial Space Legislation
House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement on a compromise version of commercial space legislation that passed the House and Senate earlier this year. Details of the compromise have not …
House Passes Deal to Increase Spending Caps, Raise Debt Limit For Two Years
This afternoon (October 28) the House passed the deal negotiated by the White House and top congressional leaders to increase spending caps for FY2016 and FY2017 and raise the debt …
House to Vote on Budget/Debt Limit Deal Today – UPDATE
UPDATE, October 28, 2015, 5:30 pm ET: The House just passed the deal as an amendment to an unrelated bill (H.R. 1314) by a vote of 266-167. Now it goes …
Export-Import Bank Wins Reauthorization in House, Will Senate Follow Suit?
Despite opposition from some of the top Republican leaders in the House, the Export-Import Bank was firmly reauthorized in the House today. The next stop is the Senate, where its …
Culberson Will "Vigorously Enforce" Restrictions on NASA-China Relationship – UPDATED
Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) said today that NASA did not fully inform Congress about the recent State Department-led meeting in Beijing on bilateral U.S.-China civil space cooperation as required by …
What's Happening in Space Policy October 26-31, 2015 – UPDATE
Here is our list of space policy events coming up during the week of October 26-31, 2015 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate will …
FAA's Nield Endorses Woerner's Moon Village, But With Commercial Partners Too
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) commercial space office, George Nield, endorsed the Moon village concept espoused by European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Johann-Dietrich Woerner, but called …