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NASA canceled a spacewalk over a medical concern, here's what we know

NASA halted a planned spacewalk at the International Space Station because of what it described as a “medical concern” ...
SpaceNews

NASA OIG: Final Report – IG-14-014 – NASA’s Award Closeout Process

NASA Inspector General Paul Martin today released a report examining NASA’s efforts to ensure Agency contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements are closed timely and in accordance with established ...
SpaceRef

NASA Lessons Learned: Managing Risk Assessment In New Program Plans

New safety initiative programs that focus on workforce risk reduction, collateral damage reduction, or increasing maintainability of human error in Shuttle Processing ...
Dark Reading

NASA Servers At High Risk Of Cyber Attack

The network NASA uses to control the International Space Station and Hubble Telescope has unpatched vulnerabilities that could be exploited over the Internet, NASA's inspector general warned in a new ...
SlashGear

NASA SLS Rocket Test Canceled At The Last Minute Over Safety Risk

NASA was scheduled to conduct a key test of its Space Launch System rocket and spacecraft today but had to scrub the event part way through due to an issue with its mobile launcher platform. The ...
SpaceRef

GAO-02-402RNI: Space Surveillance Network: Appropriate Controls Needed Over Data Access

Government agencies and commercial firms rely almost exclusively on data generated by the U.S. space surveillance network to ensure safe and effective operations 1 when launching and operating a ...
SpaceNews

Senator Kit Bond Slams NASA’s “Millionaire Mission” – Demands Formal Risk Assessment in Letter to NASA Administrator

Senator Kit Bond today condemned NASA’s capitulation to Russian demands to fly a millionaire tourist aboard the International Space Station and demanded that the space agency conduct a formal risk ...