A couple of space policy related items:
- The international space station is one of humanity’s great engineering triumphs. But now NASA has to face a difficult question: what is it for? – The Washington Post
- Space Policy Events for the Week of September 16-20, 2013
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Videos of some of the sessions during last week’s AIAA SPACE 2013 conference are now available on line. Here, for example, is the lunchtime panel that discussed NASA’s asteroid retrieval/redirect mission: Space Exploration for Inspiration and Profit – AIAA/Livestream –
- Moderator: William H. Gerstenmaier, NASA
- Paul Chodas, NASA NEO Program Office, NASA JPL
- Brian Muirhead, Chief Engineer, NASA JPL
- James Reuther, NASA
- Steve Stich, Deputy Director of Engineering, NASA JSC
Watch live streaming video from aiaa at livestream.com
And here is a panel about NASA’s Mars program:
- Moderator: Fuk Li – NASA JPL
- Joseph Grebowsky, MAVEN Project Scientist, NASA Goddard
- James Reuther, NASA Headquarters
- Jennifer Trosper, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA JPL
- Matthew Wallace, Mars 2020, NASA JPL
Watch live streaming video from aiaa at livestream.com
There are several panel videos dealing with commercial spaceflight as well.