A list of recent space policy related items:
- Rocks in Space – NYTimes.com
- The Air Force’s $40 Billion Space Push – Killer Apps/ForeignPolicy.com
- Senate Bill Would Kill DARPA’s SeeMe Project – SpaceNews.com
- Is China’s Space Program Shaping a Celestial Empire? – Loenard David/Space.com
- Napping our way to Mars: How sensible energy management today will slingshot us into space tomorrow – Renate Pohl/TheIndependent.ca
Update: On Thursday NASA released images and the video shown below about a mission to capture a small asteroid, bring it into the Earth-Moon system and send a crew on an Orion spacecraft to retrieve samples from it.