The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending that NASA increase user outreach and centralize decision-making to enhance the use of the International Space Station (ISS) — and NASA concurs. In …
Representative Parker Griffith, the freshman congressman who represents Huntsville, Alabama — home of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center — announced that he is switching parties from Democrat to Republican. The …
Russia’s Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft lifted off from Kazakhstan on time this afternoon, taking three new crew members to the International Space Station (ISS). The three members of the “Expedition 22” …
Todd Halvorson of Florida Today posted an item on his Flame Trench space blog quoting White House and NASA spokesmen as saying the meeting on Wednesday between President Obama and …
The Senate just passed the FY2010 Department of Defense appropriations bill (H.R. 3326) by a vote of 88-10. It was the last of the 12 annual appropriations bills awaiting passage. …
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved the Commercial Space Launch Indemnification Extension Act (H.R. 3819) today. Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) said that “Normally I do not support …
Dr. Laurie Leshin has just been named the new Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) at NASA headquaters. A geochemist, Dr. Leshin is currently Deputy Director …
President Obama decided yesterday to “jettison” the Ares 1 launch vehicle, build a new heavy lift launch vehicle, but not Ares V, and focus human space exploration on the Moon, …
The Senate is scheduled to be in session this weekend, too, as it tries to complete work on the health care reform bill and other measures before Christmas. It will …
The next International Space Station (ISS) crew is scheduled to launch from Kazakhstan on Sunday, December 20, at 4:52 p.m. EST (December 21, 3:52 a.m. local time). The three men …