The Senate Appropriations Committee publicly released its report today on the Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) bill that it marked up last week. Some of the winners and losers were clear already, but …
The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Philae comet lander has awakened and is sending data back to Earth once more. Scientists have anxiously waited seven months for this moment. Philae (pronounced …
Here is our list of space policy related events for the week of June 15-19, 2015 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in …
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) offered an amendment to the FY2016 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill during full committee markup today that would have added money above the level recommended yesterday by …
The Senate Appropriations Committee today rejected an amendment by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) to restore funding for NOAA to proceed with future satellites in the Joint Polar Satellite Sytsem (JPSS) …
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) may want to hold DOD’s feet to the fire to stop using Russian RD-180 engines by 2019, but the Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) isn’t …
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden fired back at the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that funds the agency because of its cut to the commercial crew program. The subcommittee marked up the FY2016 …
The National Research Council’s Space Studies Board (SSB) has extended the deadline for applications from young (under 40) earth and planetary scientists from the United States and China to participate …
Updated with reaction from Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL). The Senate Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee, led by two of NASA’s strongest congressional supporters, approved a FY2016 CJS bill today with less …
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos released a new schedule for Russian launches to the International Space Station (ISS) for the rest of 2015 today. The schedule, approved by a State Commission, …