For those who haven’t been following it, NASA is currently caught in a rather bizarre funding bind. With only two and half months to go in the FY2013 year which ends September 30th, the agency still does not know what it is allowed to spend in this year because differing House and Senate Committees have not […]
Although the official introduction of a proposed mission to capture an asteroid and bring it to the Earth Moon L-2 point captured most of the media attention surrounding the unveiling of NASA’s FY 2014 budget request yesterday, arguably the most important item on the agenda remains the future of the Commercial Crew program. In a press conference held after the budget was […]
The administration belatedly released its FY 2014 budget request, and while gales of laughter can be heard coming from the U.S. House of Representatives, the ultimate disposition regarding NASA will likely not be so amusing once both houses of Congress get done with their now annual ritual of hacking apart the request for Commercial Crew. Marcia Smith’s excellent […]
Source: Rianovosti, Russianspaceweb In another sign that after years of decay and delays, Russia is serious about revamping its space infrastructure, Vladimir Popovkin announced today that his agency Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, will launch a lunar orbiter mission in 2015 aboard a Soyuz-2. Scheduled to lift off out of the yet to be completed Vostochny space launch complex in the […]
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