Discovering the nature of dark energy is the top scientific priority for astronomy and astrophysics as indicated in the National Research Council’s Astro2010 Decadal Survey released last month. It set …
NASA continued to woo the U.S. space astronomy community today hoping that it will agree to NASA’s proposal to increase its potential participation in the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) proposed …
Today the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the FY2011 defense appropriations bill that emerged from subcommittee on Tuesday, but on a party-line vote, 18-12. Ordinarily defense appropriations is a bipartisan measure. …
Despite earlier pessimism about the chances of the Senate bringing up the Department of Defense (DOD) authorization bill (S. 3454), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has decided not only …
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will hold a seminar on “Space and the Biological Economy — Driving the Lift” on Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 1:00 pm …
The Senate defense appropriations subcommittee (SAC-D) marked up the FY2011 defense appropriations bill today recommending zero funding for DOD’s portion of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) that …
The Senate defense appropriations subcommittee will mark up the FY2011 DOD appropriations bill tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14 at 10:30 am in 192 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Full committee markup of …
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is spreading the word today about a Space Entrepreneurship Forum tomorrow (September 15) that will start at 3:00 pm in 2318 Rayburn House Office Building. A …
During the “Space Day” part of the 3rd Annual Washington, D.C. Space and Cyber Conference of the University of Nebraska’s College of Law, participants considered the implications of the Obama …