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:
- Lunar program:
- Op-ed | Lunar Gateway or Moon Direct? – Robert Zubrin/SpaceNews.com
- How much will the Moon plan cost? We should know in two weeks | Ars Technica
- Political detours keep changing NASA’s route to the ‘final frontier’ [Editorial] – Houston Chronicle
- Returning to the Moon: Bureaucratic and Budgetary Hurdles | National Review
- NASA & commercial space:
- ISS Crew Rotations Through Spring 2020 Do Not Include Commercial Crew Flights – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- NASA says Christina Koch will spend 328 days in space | Ars Technica – Not mentioned here but delays in commercial flights to the ISS lead indirectly to an extended stay by Koch.
- NASA, Blue Origin Agreement Signals Growth of Commercial Space | NASA
- It’s official: Blue Origin will bring rocket engine tests back to Huntsville – al.com
- Mars missions:
- Space rules:
- US state space activities:
- US military space:
- Canadian space:
- Chinese space:
- China’s Plans to Dominate Space | The National Interest
- China charting a course to Mars and Jupiter | Asia Times
- China to enhance international space cooperation – Xinhua | English.news.cn
- China making great strides in space endeavors, governance – Global Times
- China to send probes to Mars and Jupiter – ecns.cn
- China invites world scientists to explore asteroid, comet together – Xinhua | English.news.cn
- China’s aerospace progress helps promote economic, social development – Xinhua | English.news.cn
- Rocket Scientist Robert Zubrin on Why China Should Go to Mars -SixthTone.com
- Euro space:
- Indian space:
- Nepalese space:
- Russian space:
- Saudi space:
- UAE space:
Webcasts:
Houston, do we have a problem? President Trump announced the establishment of Space Force in February. Skeptics have asked, what could we possibly need a space military for when we haven’t found aliens to fight and what’s the difference between NASA and Space Force?. Guest experts, Victoria Samson and Krystal Wilson, discuss space security, space technology’s beneficial values, and the plans behind President Trump’s Space Force.
Is a U.S. Space Force an inevitable step to protecting satellites and commercial space activities, or just an expensive exercise in shuffling Pentagon bureaucracies? Military and aerospace expert Anthony Colangelo joins Heaton to sort things out.
** The Space Show – Sun, 04/14/2019 – Jay Wittner talked about “Integrated Space Plan, human spaceflight development now and into the future, [and] why The Space Plan and human spaceflight is essential”.
** April 16, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black
====