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International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS 2019)
ISPCS has set the industry standard for commercial space conferences. ISPCS offers an intimate setting that fosters unrivaled networking, an agenda rich in content, and it is the only conference focused on the commercial space industry. If the spa…
Starmus V
Starmus V brings a stellar line-up of Nobel Prize Winners and prominent figures from science and art for its fifth festival in June 2019.
Timed to coincide with the approching 50th anniversary of the moon landings, Starmus V will take place…
Humans to Mars Summit
The Humans to Mars Summit is the world’s largest annual conference that is focused on the goal of landing humans on Mars. The 2019 Summit will feature a diverse lineup of topics, technologies, breakout sessions, and audience participation that w…
The 57th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
The 2019 Goddard Symposium will examine both the history and future of the science and technology of exploring our home planet, our solar system, and beyond. Join us at our new venue in Silver Spring, Maryland, for the 57th annual Goddard Symposiu…
NASA gives go-ahead for SpaceX commercial crew test flight
NASA managers have given their approval for SpaceX to proceed with an uncrewed test flight of its Crew Dragon spacecraft on March 2.
Companies skeptical commercial lunar landers can fly NASA payloads this year
As NASA selects payloads it plans to fly on commercial lunar landers, companies developing those spacecraft are skeptical any landers will be ready to fly this year, as the agency desires.
Final fiscal year 2019 budget bill secures $21.5 billion for NASA
An appropriation bill signed into law Feb. 15 gives NASA $21.5 billion for fiscal year 2019, $1.6 billion above the administration’s original request.
NASA planning to purchase additional Soyuz seats
NASA is considering buying two additional seats on Soyuz spacecraft to ensure a continued American presence on the International Space Station amid worries about additional delays in commercial crew flights.
NASA seeks to accelerate work on lunar missions
NASA is now emphasizing speed in its lunar exploration plans, including seeking to fly payloads on commercial lunar landers before the end of this year as it works with industry on lander concepts.
NASA selects infrared astronomy survey mission
NASA has selected for development a mission that will perform a spectroscopic survey of the entire sky at near-infrared wavelengths to study the origins of solar systems, galaxies and the universe.
SpaceX protests NASA launch contract award
SpaceX has filed a protest over the award of a launch contract to United Launch Alliance for a NASA planetary science mission, claiming it could carry out the mission for significantly less money.
NASA center director nominated to lead NRO
The White House has nominated a longtime NASA center director and former acting administrator to be the next director of the National Reconnaissance Office.
Op-ed | Remembering America’s lost space pioneers
Today is the NASA Day of Remembrance, an opportunity for Americans everywhere to reflect on the service of the men and women of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration who helped lead our nation into the heavens and never came home.
Commercial crew test flight schedule slips again
NASA announced Feb. 6 another set of delays to the schedule of commercial crew test flights by Boeing and SpaceX, increasing concerns that the vehicles won’t be ready to starting transporting astronauts to the International Space Station by the end of this year.
NASA leadership cautions recovery from shutdown will take time
As NASA reopens after the longest government shutdown in history, the agency’s administrator said Jan. 29 that a full recovery from the effects of the shutdown will take longer than the shutdown itself.
