Reactions by Members of Congress to the Augustine committee report illuminate the challenging road that still lies ahead for decisions on the future of the human space flight program. Senator …
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden told the National Association of Investment Companies yesterday that NASA needs to “leverage the power and innovation of American industry and the American entrepreneur.” The full …
The George C. Marshall Institute has created a compendium of National Security Council directives on the space program from 1955-2002. The two-volume set publishes the public versions of these statements …
Senate progress on completing the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill (H.R. 2847), which funds NASA, NSF, and NOAA, has slowed due to a Vitter-Bennett amendment that would prohibit funding for the upcoming …
Today, the House passed H.R. 3819 that would extend for three years government indemnification for third party liability claims against commercial space launch companies. The existing indemnificaton expires on December …
NASA plans to delay the next space shuttle launch, STS-129 (Atlantis), by four days to November 16, 2009. According to a NASA press release and media reports, the delay is …
Stewart Nozette, who is well known in Washington space policy circles, was arrested by the FBI and charged with attempted espionage by giving classified information to someone he believed was …
The chairman of the Committee to Review U.S. Human Space Flight Plans, Norman Augustine, along with committee member, Ed Crawley, will hold a press conference at 1:00 p.m. EDT, on …
The Chinese government has not approved a mission to send Chinese astronauts (“taikonauts”) to the Moon according to Dong Nengli of the China Manned Space Engineering Program. Mr. Dong reportedly …
A “Launch-on-Need” (LON) shuttle mission after what is currently scheduled as the final space shuttle launch is under evaluation by NASA according to the website NASASpaceFlight.com. Currently the last shuttle …