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The Senate Appropriations Committee’s Commerce-Justice-Science subcommittee hearing on NASA scheduled for today has been postponed to May 5 according to the committee’s website.

The news over the past several days on what progress is being made in resolving the FY2011 budget impasse has been pretty dismal.

Witnesses at today’s hearing by the House Science, Space and Technology Committee’s Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics argued that the biggest obstacle to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) human space exploration program is policy instability. The relative priority given to either commercial- or government-developed and operated options to transition from the Space Shuttle […]

NASA has selected five potential discoverers as the recipients of the 2011 Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships, named after the late astronomer. The Carl Sagan Fellowship takes a theme-based approach, in which fellows will focus on compelling scientific questions, such as “Are there Earth-like planets orbiting other stars?” Sagan once said, “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting […]

NASA wants your vote for space shuttle wakeup songs. The space agency is once again inviting the public to get involved in the long tradition of rousing astronauts on space shuttle missions with specially chosen songs.