The Senate Appropriations Committee cut $150 million from DOD’s FY2014 funding request for procurement of Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELVs) and split the remaining funds into two separate accounts. It also …
Presidential Science Adviser John Holdren and NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden praised outgoing Deputy Administrator Lori Garver today for her dedicated service. Garver revealed yesterday that she is leaving NASA after …
Russia’s spate of launch vehicle failures includes a January 2013 malfunction of a Rokot-Briz combination that left three small military communications satellites in the wrong orbit and one of them nonfunctional. Rokot …
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced today that she is leaving NASA effective September 6. In an email, Garver said that she has accepted a position in the private sector outside …
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin lashed out at Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, and the space sector generally at a meeting in Moscow today, three days after Roscosmos director Vladimir Popovkin …
It’s vacation time almost everywhere, so there are few space policy-related events coming up. There are some, though, and we’ve combined the next two weeks in the list below. Congress …
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) introduced a bill yesterday to streamline the regulatory process for commercial suborbital and orbital spaceflight. The Suborbital and Orbital Advancement and Regulatory Streamlining (SOARS) Act, H.R. 3038, is …
Former astronaut Kathy Sullivan was nominated by President Obama yesterday to become Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and the new administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …
A day after the House pulled its version of the Transportation-HUD (T-HUD) appropriations bill from the floor, the Senate also threw in the towel. After debating the bill for more …
President Obama nominated France Cordova to be the next Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) today. Cordova was NASA’s Chief Scientist from 1993-1996. Cordova, an astrophysicist, has an impressive resume …