Editor’s Commentary As the space community celebrates the 41st anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon today, the perennial question of whether or when American astronauts will return …
UPDATE: A very quick comparison with the Senate version of the bill has been added. Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN), chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee, has introduced the …
Space News reports today on the mounting costs for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the successor to the Hubble Space Telecope. Amy Klamper writes that the costs for FY2011 …
UPDATE: The House Science and Technology Committee’s markup of the House version of the NASA authorization bill on Thursday has been added. The following events may be of interest in …
Thirty-five years ago today, an American Apollo capsule docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule in Earth orbit. The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was a milestone in international cooperation in …
Although some view the Senate Commerce committee’s NASA authorization bill as a sharp divergence from the Obama plan, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver gave an interview to the Houston Chronicle …
According to Congress Daily (subscription required), the full Senate Appropriations Committee will mark up the Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill, which includes NASA and NOAA, on Thursday, July 22. It will …
At a meeting of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament (CD) Tuesday, the State Department began implementing President Obama’s new U.S. space policy, highlighting its emphasis on stability in space. …
UPDATE 6: A video of a press conference with Senators Rockefeller, Hutchison, Nelson, Vitter and others is available on Senator Nelson’s website. UPDATE 5: Statement by Senator Vitter from his …