Much is being made of Senator Ted Cruz’s ascension to chairmanship of a Senate subcommittee that oversees NASA and a few other government science and technology programs. Cruz critics postulate …
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of January 12-16, 2015 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session …
SpaceX founder and Chief Designer Elon Musk reported early this morning (January 10) that the landing of his Falcon 9 first stage on a drone ship did not go as …
As of 10:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) tonight, January 9, SpaceX’s fifth operational cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is still on schedule for launch at …
Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides made clear today that the company remains committed to its goal of opening space for all both with suborbital flights of passengers and launches of …
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee today announced who will chair its subcommittees in the 114th Congress. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will chair the subcommittee that oversees NASA, while Marco …
The launch of SpaceX’s fifth operational cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed another day, to January 10, 2015. The launch time for SpaceX CRS-5, or …
SpaceX scrubbed its launch of its fifth operational cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this morning 81 seconds before launch. The countdown had been proceeding smoothly, but, according …
UPDATE: January 13, 2015: This article was updated to reflect the arrival of the service module in lunar orbit. The service module for China’s lunar sample return test mission last …
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today denied Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC’s) protest of NASA’s September award of two Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCAP) contracts to Boeing and SpaceX. In a …