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Congress has released an omnibus appropriations bill that would allocate $19.3 billion in funds for NASA for fiscal year 2016, Space News reported Wednesday. Jeff Foust writes the allocation represents a $756 million increase in funds the space agency requested for its FY 2016 budget. The omnibus bill also increased …

John Honeycutt, a 16-year NASA veteran and formerly deputy manager of the Space Launch System program, has been named SLS program manager. He succeeds Todd May and will supervise more than 4,200 civilian and contractor employees who are assigned to perform planning, acquisition, development, testing, evaluation and operational services for …

Todd May, formerly manager of NASA’s Space Launch System program, has been named deputy director of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center. May will succeed 35-year NASA veteran Teresa Vanhooser and be responsible for NASA’s field installations with an annual budget of $2.5 billion, NASA said Tuesday. “I’m confident that …

NASA has launched its Cube Quest Challenge comprised of three sub-competitions designed to examine new space exploration technologies and capabilities for small satellites for a total prize money of $5 million. The agency said Nov. 24 that teams will also vie for an opportunity to launch their own CubeSat as a secondary payload on …

An unmanned Orion spacecraft completed its maiden test flight Friday, a 4.5-hour excursion intended to provide data for NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers to assess the capsule’s potential for manned space exploration. NASA conducted Exploration Flight Test-1 to evaluate the launch abort system, guidance and navigation technology, avionics, heat shield …

NASA has developed an infrastructure at its Kennedy Space Center, Fla. that will be used to help prepare government and commercial spacecraft for future space exploration missions. Agency personnel have completed design and system reviews of the facility’s spaceport under the Ground Systems Development and Operations program, NASA said Wednesday. …

NASA officials have said the collaboration between U.S. and Russia for space initiatives have yet to be affected by existing political tensions between the two countries, Politico reported Wednesday. Leigh Munsil writes Meredith McKay, deputy director for human exploration and operations of the international and interagency relations office at NASA, …

NASA has moved to test an autonomous flight control system intended to help adapt the agency’s space launch system rocket to environmental changes for crew safety. The Adaptive Augmenting Controller technology works for the SLS to adjust to varying vehicular and environmental conditions during space launch, NASA said Tuesday. The …

Through the House Appropriations Bill recently signed into law, Congress approved $178 billion for NASA, a $650 million cut from last year, and $924 million less that President Obama requested in February. Despite the overall cut, NASA did see some major increases, particularly in the areas of deep space exploration, as …