A meeting last week between U.S. former astronauts, Chinese astronauts, and others, sponsored by the Space Foundation, opened a new channel of communications according to Aviation Week and Space Technology. …
Women in Aerospace (WIA) will honor its 2009 award winners at a banquet at the National Press Club on October 27, 2009. Details are on WIA’s website. The seven outstanding …
The Senate completed action on the Interior-Environment bill today and turned its attention to the DOD appropriations bill (H.R. 3326). No votes are scheduled tomorrow (Friday) and Monday is Yom …
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report today concluding that the cost and schedule for NASA’s Constellation program will remain uncertain “until a sound business case is established.” It …
Images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of new impact sites on Mars reveal frozen water just under the surface, NASA reports. Team members from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, …
The following presentations were made to the first meeting of the Primitive Bodies panel of the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Planetary Science Decadal Survey. The meeting was held on September …
A NASA briefing is scheduled today at 2:00 EDT to discuss recent scientific findings from lunar probes, but the news already has made headlines in many media sources: not only …
Congressional action is focused on health care and appropriations bills this week, with no hearings announced thus far of significance to the space program. On the appropriations front, the Senate …
NASA will hold a pair of science briefings tomorrow (Thursday) to debut new findings about the Moon and Mars. 2:00 pm EDT, NASA Headquarters. Briefing on findings from international and …
Today Russia will formally announce that it is postponing its Phobos-Grunt sample return mission to Mars until 2011 according to Anatoly Zak of RussianSpaceWeb.com. Mr. Zak had previously reported that …