European Cargo Craft Heads for the International Space Station; Cosmonauts Install, Retrieve Experiments During Station Spacewalk

. The European Space Agency’s Johannes Kepler Automated Transfer Vehicle hurtled into orbit from Kourou in French Guiana on Wednesday, initiating an eight-day trip to the International Space Station with seven tons of cargo. The Ariane 5 rocket with ESA’s...

NASA Facing Flat Budgets, Just Enough to Initiate an Ambitious Exploration Agenda

Β  Β  Β  President Obama’s proposed budget for 2012 locks NASA spending at $18.72 billion, or 2010 levels for the next five years, while at the same time initiating a delayed transition away from the previous administration’s Constellation program with plans...

President to Unveil 2012 Budget on Monday, House Urges Major 2011 NASA Cuts

Β  NASA’s budget outlook — along with that of most federal agenciesΒ  — is in new flux. And the search for clarity and consequences is not for the impatient. On Monday, President Obama will unveil the administration’s proposed budget for 2012,...

NASA IG briefs House Appropriators on Space Agency’s Top Concerns

Β  Β  NASA Inspector General Paul Martin underscored the urgency of addressing the uncertainty over the agency’s human spaceflight program in testimony presented Thursday to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science. The Appropriations...