European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano’s spacesuit filled up with 1-1.5 liters of water during an hour-and-a-half spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) this morning. NASA terminated the …
NASA will hold a press conference this afternoon to discuss the problem that developed this morning with Luca Parmitano’s spacesuit that forced an early termination to a spacewalk. The press …
The Senate appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over NASA approved $18 billion for the agency for FY2014 this morning, a significant increase over the level recommended by its House counterpart last …
Adding to an already busy schedule of action on legislation affecting NASA this week, the full House Science, Space and Technology (SS&T) Committee announced today that it will mark up …
UPDATE: The Senate Appropriations Committee’s full committee markup of the CJS bill on Thursday has been added. The following space policy events may be of interest in the week ahead. …
On Tuesday, Ball Aerospace held the second “Target NEO” workshop on the technical challenges and opportunities of exploring Near Earth Objects (NEOs), especially asteroids and NASA’s new Asteroid Retrieval Mission …
NASA and Orbital Sciences Corporation are currently planning the first test launch of Orbital’s Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) in September 2013. The Antares …
The FY2014 appropriations bill that funds NASA and NOAA will get more action next week in both the House and the Senate. On Tuesday morning, the Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee of …
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin is disputing stories published in the Russian media that the recent Proton rocket failure was caused by incorrectly installed sensors. Russia’s Interfax news service …
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology (SS&T) Committee, and Charlie Bolden, NASA Administrator, squared off in dueling op-ed pieces in The Hill newspaper over …