NASA notified Congress by letter today that it has signed a contract with Russia for additional seats on Soyuz spacecraft to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station …
UPDATE, August 7, 2015: No space policy questions arose at the debate. ORIGINAL STORY, August 5, 2015: The 10 Republican presidential candidates who will debate each other in prime …
The Senate passed the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, S. 1297, today (August 4) by unanimous consent. The broadly cast bill not only deals with several issues directly related to …
Five weeks ago, the State Department announced agreement on a U.S.-China Civil Space Dialogue that will begin in October, a short three months from now. With all the hyperbole that …
It’s summer vacation time so our list of upcoming space policy related events is rather sparse. Therefore we are listing everything we know about for the entire month of August …
UPDATE, July 30, 3:50 pm EDT: This afternoon the Senate passed the House’s short-term (three-month) extension of the highway bill, that has no Export-Import Bank reauthorization, sending it to the …
Eight of the 10 recommendations adopted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) yesterday about the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) crash were directed at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and its Office …
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA), the top Democrat on the House appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA and NOAA, stepped down from that position today after being indicted by the Justice Department …
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) voted today to adopt its final report on the October 31, 2014 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) accident that killed one of the spaceplane’s two pilots. The …
UPDATE, July 28, 2015, 8:10 am EDT: The Aerospace Industries Association issued a press release praising the Senate action and urging the House to follow suit. ORIGINAL POST, July 27, …