NASA’s next lunar mission, LADEE, remains on track for launch tomorrow, September 6, just before midnight Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The U.S. East Coast from South Carolina to Maine should be …
UPDATE: A link is now provided to a chart with the planetary science funding figures for FY2012-2018; figures for FY2014 are the request and for FY2015-2018 are notional. ORIGINAL STORY: …
NASA’s LADEE mission is on schedule for launch from Wallops Flight Facility on the coast on Virginia close to midnight on Friday, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). NASA will hold two …
We’ve just been told that NASA moved up the briefing this afternoon on Orbital Sciences Corporation’s upcoming Antares/Cygnus flight by an hour. It starts at 3:00 pm Eastern (in about …
Chris Kraft, the iconic former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), is no fan of the Space Launch System (SLS) being built by NASA at the direction of Congress. In …
A Russian investigative committee is charging three senior managers with embezzling $3.2 million from Russia’s GLONASS navigation satellite program, RIA Novosti reports tonight. George Kovkov, Deputy Director General of TsNIMash, Alexander …
Officially Congress does not return until September 9, but at least one committee (Senate Foreign Relations) reportedly is planning a hearing on the situation in Syria this week and others …
NOAA and its European counterpart, EUMETSAT, signed a new agreement this week extending their cooperative activities in weather, ocean, and climate observations. The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites …
With only six weeks left in FY2013, Congress and the Obama Administration finally reached agreement on NASA’s FY2013 operating plan that details how the agency will spend the money appropriated …
George Washington University (GWU) space policy experts John Logsdon and Scott Pace agree NASA is adrift today, particularly with regard to the human spaceflight program, and blame the White House …