After a one-day launch delay because of frigid temperatures at the launch site, Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Orb-1 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is ready for launch …
The President may brief Congress on the State of the Union every January, but this week the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has an even grander goal — a briefing on the …
Many pundits label last year as the “do nothing Congress.” At the very end, the House and Senate did at least reach agreement on a two-year budget resolution and the FY2014 National …
India’s biggest rocket, the Geosynchronous Space Launch Vehicle (GSLV), successfully returned to flight today, the first flight since double launch failures in 2010. GSLV uses an indigenously produced cryogenic upper …
The first operational launch of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) is being delayed for one or two days because of forecasted frigid temperatures at …
Two people viewed in the space policy community as epitomizing the differences between the Democratic and Republican views on NASA — Lori Garver and Scott Pace — were joined by …
UPDATE 3, January 6, 2014: SpaceX’s launch of Thaicom-6 is now scheduled for today, January 6, at 5:06 pm ET. Orbital’s Orb-1 launch is now scheduled for Wednesday, January 8 …
NASA says it is looking forward to China publicly releasing the scientific results from the Chang’e-3 lander and Yutu rover that arrived on the lunar surface earlier this month. Yesterday, …
Mars One, the Dutch non-for-profit foundation advocating one way trips to Mars for people who want to settle the Red Planet, announced today that it chose 1,058 candidates to proceed to …
President Obama signed the FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law yesterday, sustaining a record that spans more than 50 years of enacting this annual law despite the ups …