NOAA Administrator Kathy Sullivan explained to a House appropriations subcommittee yesterday that its proposal for a new Polar Follow On (PFO) satellite program is the result of advice from an …
A lengthy House subcommittee hearing with top officials from the government and private sector yesterday (March 17) left as many questions as answers on how to assure “assured access” to …
NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is concerned about the interdependencies among the three elements of NASA’s effort to build a system to take humans beyond low Earth orbit — …
Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and James Inhofe (R-OK) wrote to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter last week to complain that DOD is not following congressional direction to expeditiously develop a …
Here is our list of space policy related events coming up during the week of March 16-20, 2015 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate …
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden sparred over NASA’s priorities today (March 12) at a hearing on the President’s FY2016 budget request for the agency. Cruz, a …
Three International Space Station (ISS) crew members returned safely to Earth tonight after an unexpected communications dropout during the deorbit burn added a bit of drama to their landing. NASA …
A two-minute static fire test of a booster segment for NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) was successfully completed this morning at Orbital ATK’s facility in Promontory, Utah. It was …
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) will hold a hearing next week on “Assuring Assured Access to Space” with industry and government witnesses. Building an American alternative to Russia’s RD-180 …
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) formally initiated her campaign to succeed retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski today. In a two-minute video announcing her intentions, she gave a shout-out to NASA’s Goddard Space …