Bart Gordon

A group of 30 Nobel laureates, NASA astronauts, former NASA senior officials, and other space boosters Tuesday sent a protest letter to Rep. Bart Gordon, D- Tennessee,  the Chairman of the House Science Committee, demanding  significant changes to...

By Robert Block,  Sentinel Space Editor Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., the chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology, has written to a group of space boosters and Nobel laureates that the Obama administration’s ambitious shakeup...

WASHINGTON — In a surprise turnabout, leaders of the U.S. House Science and Technology committee on Thursday all but surrendered to a Senate plan for NASA that cancels the Constellation moon program and gives commercial rocket companies a greater...

If in the debate over NASA's legislative future anybody ever asked the question “What would Mike Griffin do?” they need wonder no longer. In an e-mail sent to an Alabama reporter on Tuesday and copied to his closest collaborators on the ...

by Mark Silva 220-215. The first full vote on the health-care reform that President Barack Obama is demanding from Congress by year's end arrived late last night in the House. "Let's keep making history,'' the president told supporters in a......

WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama visited Kennedy Space Center in April, he pledged $40 million to help aerospace workers in Florida find new jobs after the space shuttle fleet completes its final mission, now scheduled for later this year....

WASHINGTON — The House science committee on Monday unveiled a new guideline for NASA policy that threatens to upset a carefully-crafted compromise worked out by the Senate and White House last week. The measure, authored by the top Democrats and...

Three members of Congress asked President Bush to fire NASA Inspector General Robert Cobb on Monday after reviewing findings from a federal probe. Investigators examined 69 allegations against Cobb, a White House appointee, which included accusations...

Sen. Bill Nelson on Tuesday called for the resignation of NASA's top lawyer because he destroyed recordings of a meeting so they wouldn't become public. According to Nelson, D-Fla., the meeting involved NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, Inspector...

WASHINGTON - A group of House Democrats called on President Bush yesterday to broaden NASA's inquiry into the loss of the Columbia space shuttle, voicing concerns that the agency's external investigative board is not independent enough to conduct the...

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers increased their pressure yesterday on NASA's administrator for a more independent inquiry into the space shuttle disaster, saying the agency is too closely tied to the board it chose to investigate the accident. Rep. Sherwood...