Our Fact Sheets and Reports

Box Score of 2010 Space Launches is a one-page fact sheet providing statistical data on the number of space launches -- successes and failures -- that put satellites into orbit during 2010. Launch totals are provided for the United States, Russia, Europe, China, Japan, India, Iran, Israel, North Korea, and South Korea. It is dated January 2, 2011.

Finding the DOD and NASA budget requests is relatively easy, but not so much for space programs in other government agencies like NOAA, DOE, USGS and DOT. FY2011 Budget Documentation: Where to Find Agency Budgets is a SpacePolicyOnline.com fact sheet that provides links to the right spot on those agencies' websites. The White House Office of Management and Budget has the granddaddy budget website of them all for the entire federal government. OMB's volume on Historical Tables is particularly valuable for those who want to see what percentage of the federal budget has been allocated to NASA over time, for example.

NASA's FY2011 Budget Request and FY2012-2013 Projections in the 111th Congress (Historical) is a HISTORICAL SpacePolicyOnline.com fact sheet that tracked President Obama's fiscal year 2011 budget request for NASA as it worked its way through the 111th Congress. It provides tabular data comparing the FY2011 budget request and its projections for FY2012 and FY2013 with the 2010 NASA Authorization Act (P.L. 111-267). It also has HISTORICAL information on FY2011 appropriations action in the 111th Congress. For current information on the FY2011 appropriations see our more recent fact sheet NASA's FY2011 Appropriations: The Debate Continues in the 112th Congress. We also have a separate fact sheet on NASA's FY2012 request.

Box Score of 2009 Space Launches is a one-page fact sheet providing statistical data on the number of space launches -- successes and failures -- that put satellites into orbit during 2009. Launch totals are provided for the United States, Russia, Europe, China, Japan, India, Iran, Israel, North Korea, and South Korea. It is dated January 1, 2010.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS ) is a SpacePolicyOnline.com 1-pager that describes these two NASA lunar spacecraft missions. The fact sheet is authored by Laura M. Delgado and was updated on October 27, 2010.

The Augustine Committee Report -- Review of Human Space Flight Plans is a SpacePolicyOnline.com 1-pager, concisely summarizing the committee's report and its context. The fact sheet is authored by SpacePolicyOnline.com's Laura M. Delgado and was most recently updated on October 11, 2010.

Major Space-Related Legislation in the 111th Congress is a SpacePolicyOnline.com Fact Sheet that tracked major space-related legislation in the 111th Congress by bill number and legislative status. This is the final update for this fact sheet and is dated January 13, 2011.

NASA's Project Constellation is a historical SpacePolicyOnline.com Fact Sheet about NASA's program to design and develop spacecraft and launch vehicles to return humans to the Moon by 2020 and someday send them to Mars. President Obama proposed cancelling Constellation in his FY2011 budget request. This fact sheet was updated through October 11, 2010. For current information, see its replacement: NASA's Project Constellation and the Future of Human Spaceflight: A SpacePolicyOnline.com Fact Sheet .