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This Week in Washington  Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) was named Chair of the HASC Strategic Forces Subcommittee.  The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee announced new and returning members for the 119th Congress. Dr. V. Narayanan has been appointed as the Secretary of the Indian Department of Space and the Chairman of the Indian Space…

This Week in Washington The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies approved the FY25 CJS Appropriations Act during a markup, allocating nearly $25.18 billion to NASA. Astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the ISS took shelter on Wednesday in response to a threat posed by debris from the breakup of a decommissioned Russian…

This Week in Washington Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 lunar lander has become the first American spacecraft to successfully land on the moon in over 50 years. Uruguay has become the 36th signatory to the Artemis Accords. The House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing on current and future LEO activities.…

This Week in Washington Belgium joined the Artemis Accords as the 34th signatory. The House Science Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing on the Artemis program. Read Space Foundation’s summary of the hearing here. NASA held its annual Day of Remembrance to commemorate the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. United…

This Week in Washington This Week in Washington, President Yoon Suk Yoel reaffirmed South Korea’s intentions to strengthen bilateral cooperation in commercial, civil, and national security space with the United States, the Czech Republic became the 24th country to sign the Artemis Accords, and a coalition of 51 National Guard leaders signed onto a letter…

This Week in Washington This Week in Washington, the National Space Council continues its deliberations on agency regulatory and supervisory authority for on-orbit activities, the Federal Communications Commission proposed a regulatory framework to enhance broadband services to remote and underserved areas, and private space firms exposed to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse regained access to…

This Week in Washington This Week in Washington, Congressional committee leadership decisions were released, House SST Committee leadership introduced the bipartisan Commercial Remote Sensing Amendment Act, the Hawaiian government stood up an agency to determine the fate of two observatories, and Rocket Lab successfully launched its first mission from U.S. soil. United States Space Policy…

This Week in Washington This Week in Washington, the 118th Congress was sworn in and the first session began. The House Republican Steering Committee met to fill committee rosters, naming Representatives Lucas, Rogers, and Granger as Chair of key space committees. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to establish a Space Bureau and Office of International…

This Week in Washington This Week in Washington, midterm election results returned slowly, with leadership of the 118th Congress still in the air, NASA’s Artemis 1 launch slipped from November 14th to November 16th, the UN First Committee endorsed the US resolution to ban direct-ascent ASAT weapons testing, and China launched its final space station module.…