UPDATE: Landsat was successfully launched on time at 1:02 pm EST today, February 11, 2013, on an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. ORIGINAL STORY: Everything is on …
UPDATE, February 12: Here’s a link to a White House press release showing everyone, including Ferdowsi, who will sit with the First Lady. ORIGINAL STORY, February 11: Bobak Ferdowsi, the …
President Obama’s nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel to be the next Secretary of Defense (SecDef) will come to a vote in the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) tomorrow, February 12. …
The following space policy-related events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate both are in session this week. During the Week The sequester, due to …
NASA is reassuring everyone that the asteroid that will pass close to Earth next week will not impact the planet. The asteroid, 2012 DA14 will come as close as 17,200 …
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published a set of slides it used to brief Members of Congress on how the Air Force is implementing its New Entrant Certification Guide …
The FAA’s annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference featured an array of government and private sector participants over the past two days. In addition to Wayne Hale’s plea for industry to …
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) decided to postpone its tentatively planned markup of Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense. SASC was planning to vote on the nomination …
A line-up of top Washington space policy-makers and industry representatives carried diverse messages to the FAA’s annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference yesterday. Among them was a call by Wayne Hale for …
Major media outlets are reporting that President Obama will ask Congress to again delay the sequester during a news conference at 1:15 pm ET today. Congress delayed the dire across-the-board federal …