NTSB Ready To Vote on Final Report on SpaceShipTwo Crash
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will meet in public session on Tuesday, July 28, to deliberate and vote on its report on the probable cause of the October 31, …
Senate Agrees to Consider Amendment to Reauthorize Ex-Im Bank
The Senate took a small, but important, step towards potentially reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank during a rare Sunday session today. The action does not reauthorize the bank, but sets up …
What's Happening in Space Policy July 26-31, 2015
Here is our list of space policy related events for the week of July 26-31, 2015 and any insight we can offer about them. Congress is in session this week. …
Stunning Backlit Photo of Pluto Shows Atmosphere
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft not only took fascinating photos of Pluto as it approached and flew past the dwarf planet 10 days ago, but continued snapping pictures as it raced …
Ted Cruz and Star Trek
While not the same type of space policy pronouncements made by other presidential contenders, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) expounded on his views of the fictional Captains James …
Soyuz TMA-17M Scheduled to Dock On Time Despite Stuck Solar Panel-UPDATE
UPDATE, July 23: Later reports said the solar array deployed just before docking, not at docking. UPDATE, July 22, 2015 11:01 pm EDT: Soyuz TMA-17M docked with the ISS as …
Failed Strut Likely Cause of Falcon 9 Failure, But Investigation Continues
SpaceX’s Elon Musk told reporters during a media teleconference that preliminary conclusions point to an upper stage strut that “broke free” as the likely cause of the Falcon 9 failure …
GAO Denies Ball's JPSS Bid Protest, Orbital ATK Resumes Work – UPDATE
UPDATE, July 28, 2015: GAO has now released the full text of its decision. A link is provided below. ORIGINAL STORY, July 21, 2015. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied …
What's Happening in Space Policy July 20-24, 2015
Here is our list of space policy related events for the week of July 20-24, 2015 and any insight we can offer about them. Congress is in session this week. …
Hillary Clinton: "I Really, Really Do Support the Space Program"
Hillary Clinton became the second of the 2016 presidential candidates to offer strong support for the space program. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Dover, NH, today she explained …