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) …
A special United Nations group of experts has reached consensus on Transparency and Confidence Building Measures (TCBMs) for space activities. In a statement, the U.S. State Department commended the U.N. …
At 5:27 pm Eastern Daylight Time (21:27 GMT), NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will begin taking a photograph of Earth from its vantage point at Saturn. The photo shoot will last about …
The Senate Appropriations Committee and the House Science, Space and Technology (SS&T) Committee each marked up their NASA bills today. The markups themselves, not to mention the funding figures therein, demonstrate …
A Republican provision in the 2013 NASA authorization bill to make the position of NASA Administrator a 6-year term appointment was removed by a close vote during committee markup today. …
Despite skepticism from a Russian Deputy Prime Minister, an official with Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, confirms that the recent Proton-M launch failure was caused by sensors that were installed upside …