Awesome Photos Show Cassini's Still Got What It Takes to Amaze
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover may be all the rage at the moment, but these new images of Saturn and its moon, Titan, show that the Cassini spacecraft still has what it takes …
ISS Crew Will Have to Manage Power Usage While Devising Fix for Bolt Problem
The six-person crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will have to manage how it uses electrical power for an indeterminate period of time while ground-based experts determine how to …
NASA to Hold News Conference to Discuss Unsuccessful Spacewalk — UPDATE 4
UPDATE 4: Just slipped to 5:45 pm ET (4:45 pm CT). UPDATE 3: The news conference will be at 5:30 pm ET (4:30 pm CT). Watch on NASA TV. UPDATE …
Obama Restates Commitment to "Potential" Human Mission to Asteroid as Prelude to Mars
President Obama took to the social networking site Reddit yesterday in a question and answer session that included an exchange about the space program. He said that staying “at the …
GOP Platform Calls for Sustaining U.S. Preeminence in Space, But Little Else About the Space Program
The Republican Party has formally adopted its platform for the 2012 election. One small section addresses the space program, calling for sustaining American preeminence in space. The two paragraphs of the …
IISL Releases Moot Court Problem for 2013 Competition
The International Institute of Space Law (IISL) has released the problem that forms the basis for the upcoming 2013 Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court competition. The annual competition for law school …
NOAA's GOES-East Shows Isaac As It Is Declared a Hurricane
This image from NOAA’s geostationary weather satellite, GOES-East, shows Isaac as its winds surpassed the threshold to move from a Tropical Storm to a Hurricane. Image credit: NOAA The storm …
Rediscovering Discovery: A SpacePolicyOnline.com Commentary-Updated
SpacePolicyOnline.com correspondent Laura M. Delgado shares her reaction to visiting the space shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center this weekend in this commentary, updated with photos of Discovery taken during …
A Voice from Mars as Curiosity Gets Ready, Set, Go!–Corrected
The first voice was transmitted from Mars today, and it’s Charlie Bolden’s! During an afternoon press conference, mission experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory played this recording of NASA Administrator …
Bolden Video Tribute to Neil Armstrong
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden pays tribute to Neil Armstrong in this video, released today. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, died on Saturday at the age of …