UPDATE, November 21, 2013: Senator Nelson’s bill is S. 1753. Like the House bill, it is bipartisan, with three Republican co-sponsors (Thune, Rubio and Cruz) and three Democrats in addition …
UPDATE 3, 8:23 pm ET: Launch went off as (re)scheduled at 8:15 pm ET. UPDATE 2, 7:19 pm ET: They’ve picked up the count. Launch will be about 8:15 pm …
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report yesterday with a list of 103 ways to reduce the deficit over the next decade. Among them is terminating the human spaceflight …
UPDATE: MAVEN lifted off on time at 1:28 pm ET. ORIGINAL STORY: The weather appears to be holding for today’s launch of NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft to Mars. Launch is scheduled …
With the MAVEN mission safely on its way to Mars, attention can now turn to another interesting launch coming up tomorrow. This one will give people along the East Coast …
The New York Times (NYT) carries an interesting story today about an ongoing debate within U.S. policy circles about whether to allow Russia to install monitor stations for its GLONASS navigation …
The following events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate are in session. During the Week NASA’s launch of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) …
Four meetings in Washington, D.C. over this past week addressed the future of space exploration, but no unified message emerged. There was a focus on the role of the entrepreneurial NewSpace …
On the same day NASA and its commercial cargo partners gave themselves a pat on the back for completing the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) development program, NASA’s Inspector General …
An Independent Review Team (IRT) chaired by Tom Young today issued an urgent call to build a “gap-filler” for NOAA’s polar orbiting weather satellite program and make the system robust. The IRT is keeping …