The House is expected to approve a budget enforcement resolution today to set limits for FY2011 discretionary spending in lieu of the 5-year budget resolution that is normally passed. The …
The House Science and Technology Committee’s Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on “Setting New Courses for Polar Weather Satellites and Earth Observations” for next Tuesday, June 29, …
Recent rumors were that the President’s new national space policy would be released in June, but Air Force Secretary Michael Donley used wording yesterday that indicates it is not that …
Officials from the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, will meet with European Commission members on July 7 to discuss options for developing a joint anti-asteroid defense program, RIA Novosti reported today. …
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation announced yesterday that Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) is hosting an event for Senators and their staff today that is open to the media. It features Norm …
UPDATE: A typed list of the signatories has been added to this article since some of the signatures are a bit hard to decipher. ORIGINAL STORY: Sixty-two Members of Congress …
NASA will hold a “NASA Day on the Hill” tomorrow in the foyer of the Rayburn House Office Building. NASA says the event is open to the public. It will …
Another open letter about President Obama’s plan for NASA has been sent to Congress signed by another set of space luminaries including former astronauts, former NASA and other government officials, …
There is news about the federal budget today from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. From the White House end, it is that Peter Orszag is leaving as Director of the …
John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and later a U.S. Senator from Ohio, published an essay on the Ohio State University website giving his views on the …