NASA IG: Lessons Learned System Rarely Used, "Marginalized"

NASA IG: Lessons Learned System Rarely Used, "Marginalized"

NASA’s Lessons Learned Information System (LLIS) is rarely used by NASA managers and is of “diminishing and questionable value.”   Those are the findings of a new report from NASA’s Office of …

Read More Read More

Rep. Wolf Tells Bolden No To China on ISS

Rep. Wolf Tells Bolden No To China on ISS

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) wrote NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden yesterday telling him that cooperation with China on the International Space Station (ISS) is not permissible. The letter is in response …

Read More Read More

Billings: Space Science Is Not an Entitlement Program

Billings: Space Science Is Not an Entitlement Program

Linda Billings, a research professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, chastised the space science community for assuming that the work they do is an …

Read More Read More

GAO Slams JWST, MSL Cost Overruns

GAO Slams JWST, MSL Cost Overruns

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported today that the overrun on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is $3.6 billion — 140 percent.   The Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, currently …

Read More Read More

House Appropriations Hearing on NOAA This Morning Postponed

House Appropriations Hearing on NOAA This Morning Postponed

According to the House Appropriations Committee’s website, this morning’s hearing before the Commerce-Justice-Science subcommittee on NOAA’s FY2013 budget request has been postponed.