The Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) announced today that Michael Lopez-Alegria is its new President effective March 19. NASA had issued a press release hours earlier announcing that he had left the agency. A …
NASA announced today that the Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for its NuSTAR mission is being delayed and thus a media briefing scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday) is postponed. The Nuclear Spectroscopic …
UPDATE: NASA has postponed the press briefing on NuSTAR that was scheduled for Tuesday. The following events may be of interest in the week ahead. The Senate is in session …
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) issued a press release yesterday praising the decision by Rep. Frank Wolf to reject NASA’s plan to discontinue cooperating with the European Space Agency (ESA) on …
Despite intense opposition, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) adopted and opened for signature a protocol that critics say could significanlty damage the global commercial communications satellite industry. …
Wednesday’s Senate hearing on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was intended to focus on its FY2013 budget request, but Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) used it to voice his …
The hearing was short and sweet, but members of the Strategic Forces subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) got their points across: do not cut two Air Force programs …
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology subcommittee that oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), expressed “extreme disappointment” that NOAA’s FY2013 budget request …
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden faced off against two congressional committees today, one in the Senate and one in the House. A common theme was the Obama Administration’s FY2013 budget request …
The House Science, Space and Technology Committee has announced that the time for its hearing this afternoon on NASA’s FY2013 budget request has slipped from 2:00 pm to about 2:45 …