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 (find previous space policy roundups here):
- NASA legislation:
- Senate committee approves NASA authorization bill – SpaceNews.com
- NASA icons question feasibility of Mars, Moon mission timetables at House hearing – HoustonChronicle.com
- Senate committee passes bipartisan bill that would extend U.S. operation of International Space Station – HoustonChronicle.com
- White House Pushes Back on Senate Appropriators – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- NASA warns budget uncertainty could slow exploration programs – SpaceNews.com
- Artemis:
- NASA project planning:
- Commercial Crew & Cargo:
- NASA report finds Boeing seat prices are 60% higher than SpaceX | Ars Technica
- NASA snubbed SpaceX, common sense to overpay Boeing for astronaut launches, says audit – Teslarati
- NASA payments to Boeing questioned in newest IG report – The Washington Post
- NASA inspector general criticizes additional Boeing commercial crew payments – SpaceNews.com
- Inspector general report says NASA risks losing access to the ISS in 2020 – SpaceNews.com
- Commercial cargo’s next phase – The Space Review
- Public support:
- Regulation:
- US states space:
- US military space:
- Top procurement official warns budget impasse ‘debilitating’ to military space programs – SpaceNews.com
- Air Force, Allies Team To Find Space Startups – Breaking Defense
- Air Force: SSA is no more; it’s ’Space Domain Awareness’ – SpaceNews.com
- HASC Chairman: Legislation to create a Space Force in 2020 ‘still possible but by no means guaranteed’ – SpaceNews.com
- International space
- China:
- Trump is focused on the China trade war when he should be concerned about space – The Washington Post
- China Closer to 2020 Mars Mission After Obstacle-Test Success – Bloomberg
- China’s Earth-Moon space economic zone venture – The Space Review
- China carries out 2 orbital launches inside 3 hours – SpaceNews.com
- Will China’s Belt and Road Initiative include affordable space travel? – rfi.fr
- China is not going to be America’s space partner anytime soon | TheHill
- India:
- New Zealand:
- Philippines:
- Russia:
- Corrupt officials removed from Vostochny spaceport construction – TASS
- Putin: Criminal cases failed to stem theft at Vostochny spaceport construction site – TASS
- Kremlin: $169 mln stolen out of $1.4 bln allocated for Vostochny spaceport construction – TASS
- Russia’s space agency in talks on sending Turkish, Egyptian, Saudi astronauts into space – TASS
- Russia Plans to Launch About 30 Next-Generation Navigation Satellites – Sputnik International
- UK:
- Zimbabwe:
- China:
Webcasts:
** The Space Show – Sun, 11/10/2019 – Dr. Christopher Morrison and Dr. Marcelo Vazquez discussed “space radiation & human spaceflight, medical radiation experiments for human spaceflight, alternative experiment ideas for better data collection”.
** The Space Show – Tue, 11/12/2019 – Jonathan Goff talked about Altius Space Machines and its acquisition of ASM by Voyager Space Holdings plus “future plans, LEO satellite service, debris removal and more”.
** November 13, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black
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