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Earlier this month, the polling group YouGov released the results of a recent poll on space issues. The poll covered a hodgepodge of topics, from reasons for supporting NASA to whether the poll respondent would be interested in flying in space &ldquo...

There have been a lot of high-fives and popped corks in Houston in the past 10 days, as astronaut Scott Kelly ended his record-setting year in space and came home whole, happy, and apparently quite well. The folks at NASA—to say nothing of Kelly himself...

Source: The Hill Congressional Republicans are pressing NASA for a more detailed plan to put an astronaut on Mars, warning that agency’s lack of specifics jeopardizes the program. House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) criticized the...

Introduction The American economy continues to struggle after the end of the Great Recession and five years of historically austere federal spending during an economic recovery. Economic growth is half of what it normally should be after a recession...

Only one president’s name came up during the new Congress’s first hearing about NASA this week: John F. Kennedy. This makes sense. The House committee on science, space, and technology gathered on Thursday to discuss the “past, present, and future”...