The National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Committee on Human Spaceflight and one of its two supporting panels have had several meetings already, but on Friday, April 5, the second supporting panel …
UPDATE: The first meeting of the Panel on Public and Stakeholder Opinions of the NRC’s Human Spaceflight Committee on Friday has been added. The following events may of interest in …
UPDATE 2, March 28, 10:30 pm ET: Contact and capture confirmed at 10:28 pm ET. Soyuz TMA-08M has arrived at the ISS. UPDATE, March 28, 4:45 pm ET: Launch was …
At long last, the White House has announced a firm date for sending the FY2014 budget request to Congress: April 10. It is unusual to have a budget request released …
Yvonne Brill, one of the nation’s top aerospace engineering laureates, died this afternoon from a staph infection. She was 88. Brill distinguished herself not only as an innovative engineer who spent most …
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully returned to Earth today. This was the second of 12 contracted Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) flights for SpaceX to take cargo to and from the International Space …
Data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Planck space telescope reveals that the universe is slightly older than previously thought, and the ratio of normal matter to dark matter and …
The next International Space Station (ISS) crew is scheduled to launch in their Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft in the afternoon of March 28, 2013 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). This will be …
The following events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate are in recess for two weeks. During the Week The next two weeks are bound …
For the first time since 2009, the Senate passed a budget after a marathon session that lasted until about 5:00 am ET this morning. The vote was a squeaker: 50-49. …