The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), already in trouble with the Senate Appropriations Committee, has irked the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee for advertisiing to hire …
SpaceX announced today that the launch of its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station is “unlikely” to take place on May 7 as planned. The launch has been delayed …
The National Research Council’s (NRC’s) assessment of the U.S. earth observation satellite program is that it is in a more “precarious” situation today than it was five years ago when the …
NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report today criticizing how NASA implements a law intended to discover improper payments by the government. Among its complaints, the OIG faulted …
UPDATE: The static test fire was successful on the second attempt at about 4:15 pm ET. SpaceX will conduct a static fire engine test at 3:00 pm ET today in preparation …
The following events may be of interest in the coming week. The House and Senate both are in recess this week. Tuesday, May 1 NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Commercial Space …
Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, has posted its long term plans for human and robotic spaceflight on its website. The plan outlines Russia’s space goals through 2030. The document is in Russian, …
UPDATE: The crew landed as planned at 7:45 am ET. Russia’s Soyuz TMA-22 undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 4:18 am ET and is on its way home. …
People in the Northeast will have another chance tomorrow to spot a space shuttle flying atop a 747 airplane. This time it is space shuttle Enterprise, enroute from Washington, DC to …
The House Appropriations Committee completed markup of the FY2013 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill that funds NASA and NOAA today and favorably reported the bill to the House. The chairman of the …