Thursday’s briefing begins with the U.S. House of Representatives passing a defense authorization bill that directs the bulk of Air Force rocket propulsion spending towards development of a main stage engine capable of replacing the Russian RD-180 that powers Atlas 5.
Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The... More by Jeff Foust
