Public Policy

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.

"Regular order" continues (for now) as the Senate Appropriations Committee has approved its version of legislation setting federal spending levels for fiscal year (FY) 2019.

In October the National Academies will provide an opportunity for early-career astronomers and astrophysicists to learn about, and provide input to, the Astro2020 decadal survey. Apply by 16 July.

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.

NASA's Associate Administrator for Science, Thomas Zurbuchen, has accepted the National Academy’s recommendation to start the astrophysics decadal survey now rather than wait two years.