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 …
The Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee has released the FY2014 CJS funding bill it will mark up at 11:00 am this morning. NASA would receive a substantial …
The House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee approved its FY2014 funding bill that includes NASA and NOAA today, while its counterpart authorization subcommittee approved a Republican version of a 2013 NASA …
Russian news sources are reporting that incorrectly installed angular velocity sensors may have caused the dramatic launch failure of a Proton rocket on July 1 Eastern Daylight Time. The crash 17 …
As promised, Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) introduced a Democratic version of a 2013 NASA authorization bill today. The bill would authorize NASA funding at $18.1 billion, higher than President Obama’s …
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) said this morning that she will release her own version of a 2013 NASA authorization bill this afternoon. A Republican draft is already scheduled for markup …