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FY2013 Budget Request for Space Activities:  Where to Find Agency Budget Documentation is a SpacePolicyOnline.com fact sheet that provides links to FY2013 budget request documentation for U.S. government space activities.  Included are links to budget materials for the Department of Defense (DOD), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) Office of Commercial Space Transportation, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which operates the Landsat land remote sensing satellites.  This fact sheet is dated May 9, 2012.

Box Score of 2011 Space Launches is a free fact sheet from SpacePolicyOnline.com that shows the total number of space launches in 2011 by Russia, the United States, Europe (Arianespace), China, Japan, India, Iran, Israel, North Korea and South Korea.   The table shows how  many space launches were successful and how many were failures.

Legislative Checklist:  Major Space-Related Legislation in the 112th Congress is a SpacePolicyOnline.com fact sheet that tracks major space-related legislation as it passes through the 112th Congress (the years 2011-2012). Bill numbers, report numbers, and dates when major steps in the legislative process -- such as subcommittee and full commitee markup, floor consideration, conference action, and signing into law -- are shown. This fact sheet is updated as warranted; the current date is May 18, 2012.  It includes funding bills for NASA, NOAA, DOD and the Office of Commercial Space Transportation at the Federal Aviation Administration.