NASA announced another discovery about water on Mars today. High resolution data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows that water “is flowing today” on the surface of Mars. Democratic …
NASA has terminated its unfunded Space Act Agreement (SAA) with the B612 Foundation. The Foundation is trying to raise private funds to build a spacecraft, Sentinel, to hunt for asteroids. …
The Senate advanced a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government through December 11, 2015 today, all but ending fears of a government shutdown on October 1. House Speaker John …
UPDATED September 30, 2015 with information about NASA’s participation. Details are scant, but the State Department announced that the first meeting of the U.S.-China Dialogue on Civil Space Cooperation was …
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of September 28-October 2, 2015 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in …
China debuted the Long March 11 rocket last night Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), just days after the first flight of another new rocket, Long March 6. Long March 11 is …
House Speaker John Boehner told his Republican conference this morning that he will resign his Speakership and his seat in Congress on October 30, 2015. The House has been girding …
In a letter to NOAA Administrator Kathy Sullivan today, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology (SS&T) Committee, questioned whether NOAA truly is committed to …
A panel of experts convened by the Secure World Foundation (SWF) and the Alliance for Space Development (ASD) today made the case for accelerating the emergence of commercial space stations …
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said today that the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) may need more resources to cope with the recent rise in …