Europe’s Metop-B polar-orbiting weather satellite was successfully launched by Russia yesterday. Europe and the United States cooperate in providing weather data from polar-orbiting satellites so the successful launch is good …
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and several other House members will hold a press conference on Thursday to announce introduction of a new piece of legislation called the “Space Leadership Act.” …
Vice Adm. Joe Dyer (Ret.), chair of the NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), told a House committee on Friday that he worries NASA has put “the cart before the …
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES) will meet on Monday for the first time in almost three years. A notice of the …
Russia’s official news agency Itar-Tass is reporting today that the launch of the next International Space Station (ISS) crew will be delayed because of a defective instrument on the crew’s …
The new Space Launch System (SLS) NASA is developing is useful for robotic science missions as well as human spaceflight according to the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute …
The following events may be of interest in the coming week. The House and Senate will meet for legislative business beginning on Wednesday; they are in recess early in the …
Update: Soyuz TMA-04M landed at 10:53 pm EDT on September 16, 2012. Original Story: Three International Space Station (ISS) crew members aboard the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft are on their way …
Witnesses appearing before a Senate subcommittee last week stressed repeatedly that stability and leadership are keys to the future of the U.S. space program. More money would be nice, they said, …
NASA astronaut Sunita (Suni) Williams ceremonially took command of the International Space Station (ISS) today from departing commander Gennady Padalka. Williams is only the second woman to command the ISS in …