Japan’s Daily Yomiuri newspaper reports that Japan’s Strategic Headquarters for Space Policy has recommended that the government more than double spending on Japan’s space industry, from 7 trillion yen to …
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden misspoke at yesterday’s House hearing — or the situation changed afterwards — when he said that the funds to pay for a downscaled version of the …
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) wrote a letter to President Obama yesterday arguing again in favor of launching the “launch on need” mission even if it isn’t needed to rescue the …
Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) revealed this morning that NASA is replacing the program manager of the Constellation program, Jeff Hanley. She expressed her concern about this decision during a question …
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a legal decision yesterday that NASA has not violated the FY2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act prohibiton on using funds to create or initiate a new …
The House Armed Services Committee has reported out the FY2011 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 5136). The report, H. Rept. 111-491, is available via the committee’s website or from the …
We’ve updated our fact sheet on Major Space-Related Legislation in the 111th Congress. You can find it on our left menu under “Our Fact Sheets” or by clicking here. The …
UPDATE: A go no-go decision on landing at the first opportunity this morning (Wednesday) will be made at 7:21 am EDT for a deorbit burn at 7:41 am and landing …
The first launch of Falcon 9 has been delayed to no earlier than June 2/3 according to an email from SpaceX’s Emily Shanklin. She writes that delays in the launch …
UPDATE: NASA has clarified that Mr. Bolden misspoke at the hearing when he said that funding for the downscaled version of the Orion spacecraft would come from commercial crew. See …