UPDATE, October 28: We’ve added David Grinspoon’s lecture on Thursday. The following space policy-related events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate are in session …
Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser spacecraft had a good test flight today until the very end when a problem with its left landing gear marred the event. Dream Chaser is one …
UPDATE, October 26, 2013 EDT: Christy posted today that new data issued by SpaceTrack show Payload A and its subsatellite either very close or in identical orbits, but “whether capture …
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden told a National Research Council (NRC) committee this week that there are two main reasons for extending the lifetime of the International Space Station (ISS) beyond …
Yesterday, Senator David Vitter (R-LA) placed a hold on Beth Robinson’s nomination to become Under Secretary of Energy; she currently is NASA’s Chief Financial Officer. Vitter is the third Senator in …
Women in Aerospace (WIA) will hold its awards dinner next week to honor women selected for its awards as well as the winners of two college scholarships sponsored by the …
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 …