Only one of four witnesses at a congressional hearing Tuesday expressed enthusiasm for the Obama Administration’s new Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM). No consensus emerged on an alternative, but ARM clearly …
UPDATE, May 24: Links to the proposed rules as published in the Federal Register have been added. ORIGINAL STORY, May 23: The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) announced the news this afternoon …
Former NASA space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale told the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science and Space Thursday that it is difficult for his generation to change its “mental model” …
Patti Grace Smith called on Congress last week to extend the FAA’s authority to provide third party indemnification for commercial launch services companies for 10 years or, better yet, permanently. …
NASA announced today that President Obama will posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sally Ride, the first American woman to make a spaceflight. Ride died on July 23, 2012 …
All of the gerbils and half the mice reportedly did not survive their spaceflight aboard Russia’s Bion-M1 capsule, which returned to Earth last night after a month in space.. Anatoly …
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 Among the highlights of the …
A Russian spacecraft carrying a menagerie of animals that have been in orbit for a month is scheduled to land tonight, Saturday, May 18, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The Bion-1M …
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has lost a second reaction wheel, but top officials with the project stressed today that they are not calling it quits yet. The hastily called teleconference …
If you believe China’s account, it launched a geophysical sounding rocket yesterday. If you believe Bill Gertz, it was an antisatellite (ASAT) test. China’s official news agency, Xinhua, reported that …