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, …
UPDATE: The Planetary Society’s telepresser on Wednesday re LightSail has been added. Here is our list of space policy events for the week of June 8-12, 2015 and any insight …
UPDATE, June 10, 2015: The House passed the T-HUD bill on June 9, with this modest increase included. The bill passed by a narrow margin, 216-210. ORIGINAL STORY, June 4, …
This article is updated throughout to integrate the congressional action on June 2 and June 3. The House of Representatives passed the FY2016 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill (H.R. 2578) on …
Launch of the U.S.-European Jason-3 ocean altimetry satellite has been postponed because contamination was found in one of the spacecraft’s four thrusters. Launch was scheduled for July 22. A new …
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos today revealed the results of its investigation into the April 28, 2015 Progress M-27M cargo ship launch failure. A “design peculiarity” related to frequency-dynamic characteristics between …
Here is our list of space policy related events for the week of June 1-5, 2015 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in …