While there was no progress today in resolving the issues that led to the government shutdown, federal employees and defense contractors got a little bit of good news. A large portion …
As the world celebrates the 56th anniversary of the Space Age, no progress was made in Washington today to help the U.S. space program move forward. On October 4, 1957, …
As if a government shutdown and looming debt crisis weren’t enough, Washington had a dose of a very different kind of high drama today as a woman took Secret Service and …
With its launch coming up in just a few weeks, NASA’s MAVEN program is at the top of the list of NASA concerns in the government shutdown. MAVEN Principal Investigator …
No signs of compromise emerged today in the showdown over FY2014 government funding. The government remains in partial shutdown status, with only the military and excepted activities continuing. A meeting …
Government Executive published an update this morning on the number of federal employees who have been furloughed as a result of the shutdown. It shows that 98 percent of NASA workers …
Today, NASA celebrated its 55th birthday. But it also was the first day of the government shutdown for FY2014 and more than 90 percent of NASA’s workers were furloughed. House …
UPDATE, OCTOBER 1, 12:01 am EDT: the White House Office of Management and Budget has issued the government shutdown order. A link is provided at the end of this article. …
In a press conference just seven hours before the midnight deadline for Congress to pass a funding bill or cause a partial government shutdown, President Obama listed NASA as one …
UPDATE, October 2, 2013: We have updated the list to reflect the status of these meetings — mostly cancelled — because of the government shutdown. The following events may be …