Rick Boozer will be back on The Space Show today at 2-3:30 pm PST (5-6:30 pm  EST, 4-5:30 pm CST). He will give an update on “his book from last year, The Plundering of NASA, his suggestions for programs other than SLS, and his work with the Space Development Steering Committee“.

Today’s selection of space policy/politics related links:

• Space Policy Events for January 27-31, 2014 – SpacePolicyOnline
• ULA signs deal to deliver three-dozen booster cores – Spaceflight Now
• This Week’s Book Review – Safe is Not an Option – Ricochet.com
• Space Property Rights: It’s Time, and Here’s Where to Start – Berin Szoka/Jim Dunstan – SpaceNews.com
• Editorial | Better Late than Never – SpaceNews.com
• WGS Sales to Allies Undermine U.S. Comsatcom Industry- SpaceNews.com
• Mars 2020: Its Origins, Science and Technology – SpaceNews.com
• Library: A Round-up of Reading – Res Communis
• The Space Review: 
  • Commercial crew’s critical year – Jeff Foust
  • Achieving cheap access to space: the foundation of commercialization (part 2) – Charles Miller
  • A brief look at the legal and political implications of Japan’s space debris removal plans – Michael Listner
  • Celebrating space – Ken Murphy
  • Review: Wheels Stop
• International Relations in Space – Visual.ly – A space policy infographic. (It shows the Moon Treaty as if it is comparable to the Outer Space Treaty but it has not actually been signed by any spacefaring countries. )

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