NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is criticizing NASA for making excessive early payments to Orbital Sciences Corp. for Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) to the International Space Station (ISS). Orbital is …
The three person crew of Shenzhou-10 docked with and entered the Tiangong-1 space station today, beginning a roughly two-week stay. China’s official news service Xinhua reports that docking took place at 1:18 …
The House Appropriations Committee approved the FY2014 Defense Appropriations bill today. Few changes were made to the bill as it was reported from the defense subcommittee last week. The committee …
China successfully launched the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft this morning Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), sending a three-person crew to its Tiangong-1 space station. Launch from the Jiuquan Space Launch Center took place …
China’s human spaceflight program, Project 921, officially began in 1992. The launch of Shenzhou-10 today is the tenth flight in the series, but only the fifth to carry a crew. …
China will launch a three-person crew tomorrow, June 11, to its Tiangong-1 space station on the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft. The crew includes two men and one woman. Launch is scheduled for …
Space may be a big place, but on May 22 NOAA’s GOES-13 weather satellite was in the wrong place at the wrong time. A micrometeoroid hit the solar array arm, …
As part of its commemoration of the centennials of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, the National Archives is having a special exhibit on “Nixon and the U.S. Space Program” this …
Peter Marquez, well known and highly regarded in Washington space policy circles, is joining asteroid mining company Planetary Resources, Inc. Marquez was a national security space policy analyst in the Department …
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee today approved the nominations of Anthony Foxx to be Secretary of Transportation and Penny Pritzker to be Secretary of Commerce. The votes were …