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 …
The following space policy events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate are in session this week. Monday, June 10 Senate Commerce Committee markup of …
Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly in space 50 years ago this month, wants to be on the first crew to go to Mars even though she assumes there …
Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday demanding information on a Chinese rocket launch last month that some press reports alleged was a …