On Monday, President Obama was joined by NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, former astronaut Sally Ride, and other science and engineering luminaries for the announcement of a new “Education to Innovate” …
The following events may be of interest next week. For more information, see our calendar on the right menu or click on the links below. Congressional schedules are subject to …
Update The shuttle Atlantis has landed successfully. Welcome home STS-129! Just five more scheduled shuttle missions to go: STS-130, Endeavour, Feb. 4, 2010, Tranquility Node 3 and Cupola STS-131, Discovery, …
STS-129 is scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center, Florida on Friday at 9:44 am EST. A second landing opportunity is at 11:19 am EST. The shuttle undocked from the …
The National Research Council (NRC) has selected Dr. Michael Moloney as the new Director of the Space Studies Board (SSB) and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB). Dr. Moloney …
Representatives Suzanne Kosmas (D-FL) and Ken Calvert (R-CA) took the lead in sending a bipartisan letter to President Obama yesterday arguing for a $3 billion per year funding increase for …
In a televised media conference today, the 12 crew members onboard the International Space Station (ISS) and space shuttle Atlantis answered questions from reporters around the world and described their …
At a joint press conference with President Obama today, Indian Prime Minister Singh announced that “We have decided to give a fresh impetus to collaboration in the fields of education, …
This week is dead quiet for space policy-related events due to the Thanksgiving holiday — Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Next week, though, the pace picks up with two space hearings before …
The just-released witness list for December 3rd’s House Science and Technology hearing on “Independent Audit of NASA” lists Acting NASA Inspector General (IG) Thomas Howard as one of the witnesses, …