A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government (US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest:
- Schedule:
- NASA commercial:
- Political space:
- Update: Congress and commerce in the final frontier (part 1): A brief legislative history of US commercial space law – The Space Review
- Culberson optimistic about 2019 spending bill and Europa mission funding – SpaceNews.com
- Culberson Optimistic Restrictions on US-China Space Cooperation Will Remain – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- Congress Clears Bill to Fund Government Through December 21 – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- US military space:
- Space settlement:
- Canadian space:
- Chinese space:
- Why Boeing Just Backed Out of Satellite Deal With a China-Funded Firm. | Fortune
- Here’s what you need to know about the Chang’e-4 mission to the far side of the Moon | gbtimes.com
- China launches two satellites for Saudi Arabia – Xinhua | English.news.cn
- Long March 2D launches SaudiSAT-5A/B – NASASpaceFlight.com
- Ethiopian space:
- Euro space:
- Indian space:
- New Zealand Space:
- Russian space:
- Russia’s crumbling Baikonur spaceport is Earth’s only launch pad for manned flights – ABC News
- Roscosmos claims it is victim of smear campaign in Russian, foreign media – TASS
- Rogozin to supervise key int’l space projects – Roscosmos – Interfax
- Roscosmos in talks on deploying GLONASS stations in US – TASS
- South Korean space:
Webcasts:
** The Space Show – Fri, 12/07/2018 – Dr. George Fox discussed “hardy Earth organisms survive mission sterilization, humans to Mars, Planetary Protection, the lunar environment, RNA sequencing, and more”.
** Dr. Robert Zubrin – Why a lunar base is better than LOP-G – 21st Annual Mars Society Convention