May 10, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
In a rare public appearance to talk about the future of the human spaceflight program, Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, will testify to the Senate Commerce committee on Wednesday. Mr. Armstrong will be joined by fellow Apollo astronaut Gene...
May 10, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
The chair and vice-chairs of the 2009 National Research Council (NRC) study “America’s Future in Space: Aligning the Civil Space Program With National Needs” think the Obama plan for NASA makes the NASA program just as unbalanced as its...
May 10, 2010 | Coalition News, CSExtra, features
Monday’ space news scan offers a short list of developments. 1. From the Arizona Republic, an op-ed in from June Scobee Rodgers, widow of Challenger Commander Dick Scobee and founding chairman of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education. The current...
May 10, 2010 | Photo Feature
This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers a small portion of the northwest quadrant of Hellas Planitia on Mars. With a diameter of about 1,400 miles and a depth reaching the lowest...
May 8, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
The following events may be of interest in the coming week. For more details, see our calendar on the right menu or click the links below. Times, dates and witnesses for congressional hearings and markups are subject to change; check the relevant committee’s...
May 7, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
J. Walter (“Walt”) Faulconer, the Applied Physics Laboratory’s (APL’s) business area executive for civilian space, is leaving May 14 to start a consulting business, Strategic Space Solutions, with his wife, Cindy. After 26 years at Lockheed...