International Space Station (ISS) crew members released Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft this morning. Cygnus is now maneuvering away from the ISS and will reenter tomorrow. The spacecraft, filled with 3,000 …
Established and entrepreneurial space companies met last week at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS), where innovation was touted as one solution to budgetary constraints both in …
NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued its long awaited report today on whether NASA or one of its contractors, the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), allowed inappropriate access to government …
The public may not trust the government as a whole, but it likes many federal agencies, especially NASA. Those are the findings in a new poll by Pew Research conducted …
UPDATE, October 22, 2013: November 5 is the new launch date. Launch time is 14:36 local time at the launch site in Sriharikota, India. ORIGINAL STORY: India is postponing the …
Lori Garver may have left her post as NASA Deputy Administrator to be General Manager of the Air Line Pilots Association, but she clearly is not stepping out of the …
The following events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House will be in session for part of the week; the Senate is in recess. During the Week …
Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft will depart from the International Space Station (ISS) on October 22. That will bring to an end this demonstration mission as part of NASA’s Commercial …
India plans to launch its first spacecraft to Mars on October 28. The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) focuses more on technological than scientific objectives, but does carry several scientific instruments, including …
After a 16-day partial government shutdown and one day before the government hits the debt limit, the Senate passed a bill this evening to resolve the fiscal crisis. The Senate used …