The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will markup its version of the 2013 NASA Authorization bill on Tuesday, July 30. Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) introduced …
The following space policy events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate are in session this week (and then will be on recess for 5 …
UPDATE: The Progress spacecraft successfully docked with the ISS at 10:26 pm EDT as scheduled. NASA is still trying to determine what when wrong with Luca Parmitano’s spacesuit, but tools …
NASA may be having a hard time selling its Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM) concept to Congress, but apparently there are lots of other people who think it’s a swell idea. NASA Deputy …
The Senate kept the appropriations bill that funds the Department of Transportation and its Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) alive today, but its ultimate fate remains up in the …
The House passed the FY2014 defense appropriations bill this evening. The bill (H.R. 2397) appropriates $512.5 billion for the Pentagon’s base budget, $3.4 billion less than the request, plus $85.8 billion …
NASA is still trying to determine what happened to European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano’s spacesuit during a July 16 spacewalk. Today it announced creation of a mishap investigation …
Did you look up and smile at Saturn last week while NASA’s Cassini spacecraft was doing its photo shoot? Today NASA released the images from Cassini. In one, Earth is seen as …
A new SpacePolicyOnline.com fact sheet shows clearly the considerable differences between the House and Senate funding figures for NASA in FY2014. NASA’s two authorizing committees — the House Science, Space …
The following space policy events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate are in session this week. During the Week The FY2014 Defense Appropriations bill (H.R. 2397) …