The House Science, Space and Technology Committee announced the revised date for its hearing on NASA’s strategic vision. The hearing, originally scheduled for December 6, will now take place on …
NASA announced today that it has White House approval for a new Mars rover mission to be launched in 2020. John Grunsfeld, head of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said the …
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is giving NASA credit for taking steps in the right direction, but remains unconvinced that the most recent cost estimate is reliable. In a report …
UPDATE 2: The NRC moved the release time of its NASA Strategic Directions report on Dec. 5 from 11:00 to 11:30 am ET and added a telephone news conference with its chair, …
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), long-standing partners on most issues concerning NASA programs, have amendments pending to the FY2013 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 3254) …
The New York Times and other news sources are reporting that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) revealed on Friday that a computer virus was used to steal information about …
North Korea announced today that it will try again to launch a satellite into orbit between December 10 and December 22. Its most recent attempt, in April, ended in failure …
In September, Congress passed a six-month Continuing Resolution (CR) funding the government through March 27, 2013 because none of the regular FY2013 appropriations bills would be completed before the start …
CLARIFICATION, JANUARY 16, 2013: At a NASA-ESA press conference today, the details of the agreement were explained. ESA is providing certain hardware for only one service module — for the first …
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) issued a press release today clarifying that the Mars Curiosity rover has not, in fact, made a historic discovery at this early stage of its …