President Obama sent his FY2014 budget request to Congress today, nine-and-a-half weeks late. The $1.058 trillion request includes $17.7 billion for NASA. Highlights will be discussed during a NASA media …
On a day already chock full of space news — release of the FY2014 budget request and a hearing on the threat to Earth posed by asteroids — Rep. Bill …
President Obama will submit his FY2014 budget request to Congress tomorrow, Wednesday, April 10. Word is that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will hold a press …
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden will hold a media teleconference to discuss the agency’s FY2014 budget request on Wednesday, April 10. The telecon will be held at 3:00 pm ET and …
In its annual assessment of major defense acquisition programs, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) laid out the cost growth affecting many of those programs, including space programs. The Space-Based Infrared System …
The following events may be of interest in the coming week. The House and Senate both are in session, returning from their Easter/Passover break. During the Week The big event …
A House subcommittee will hold a third congressional hearing on the threat to Earth posed by asteroids and comets on April 10, the same day President Obama will submit his FY2014 …
Editor’s Note: One silver lining of the imbroglio over the New York Times’s bungling of Yvonne Brill’s obituary is that it has piqued people’s curiosity about her. There’s no better …
Sam Ting’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) instrument was attached to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011 and scientists have been eagerly awaiting results ever since. Tomorrow, April 3, Ting …
Margaret Sullivan, public editor of the New York Times, commented in her blog today about the tempest created by the newspaper’s obituary of Yvonne Brill this weekend. In response to a …