Public Policy

Join the AAS Committee on Public Policy at AAS 233 in Seattle for a special listening session with the committee tasked with advising the National Space Council: the Users’ Advisory Group.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have released the Statement of Task for the Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, along with the scope of the study.

In this monthly feature of the AAS Policy Blog, we share a calendar of upcoming events in science and space policy that may be of interest to our members.

Congress is scrambling to pass legislation to fund the federal government starting 1 October, and federal agencies have only recently been able to finalize their budgets for the year ending 30 September.

Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, explains the agency's new policy against discrimination in NASA-funded programs, activities, and institutions.

In this monthly feature of the AAS Policy Blog, we share a calendar of upcoming events in science and space policy that may be of interest to our members.

Despite significant cuts to NASA's Planetary Science Division budget early in this decade, the agency has made impressive progress in meeting goals outlined in the 2013-2022 planetary decadal survey.

In this monthly feature of the AAS Policy Blog, we share a calendar of upcoming events in science and space policy that may be of interest to our members.

Research!America, in partnership with the AAS, is issuing a call for funding proposals from student- and postdoc-led science-policy groups in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections.

In this monthly feature of the AAS Policy Blog, we share a calendar of upcoming events in science and space policy that may be of interest to our members.