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):

• Schedule:
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING IN SPACE POLICY October 6-12, 2019 – SpacePolicyOnline.com
• NASA Artemis:
  • Fast-Track to the Moon: NASA Opens Call for Artemis Lunar Landers – NASA
• Commercial Crew:
  • NASA Mulls Soyuz Needs As Commercial Crew Schedule Remains Fluid – SpacePolicyOnline.com
  • NASA Expects to Buy More Soyuz Seats for Astronauts in 2020, at $85 Million a Pop: Reports – Space.com
• Spaceflight regulation:
  • Making the rules in space: When does careful become crushing? | TheHill
• Space debris:
  • EU space envoy calls for satellites to leave orbit soon after mission ends – SpaceNews.com
  • 60 years of space junk: The challenge of orbital debris – TheHill
  • Taking sustainability into space – EPFL
• US military space:
  • After “last remnants” of non-contested launches, Air Force seeks competition | Ars Technica
  • DARPA In Talks With New Robot Sat Servicing Company – Breaking Defense
• International space
  • With New Partnership, UN Aims to Make Space More Accessible to Developing Countries | Space.com
  • Australia:
    • Australia leans into space race for solar power with China – Sydney Morning Herald
  • Canada:
    • Canadian Government To Facilitate Space-Data Partnering Opportunity with the UK – SpaceQ
    • Key Space Resources Meeting to be Held In Ottawa – SpaceQ
  • Europe:
    • ESPI Brief 34 – Toward a more strategic, assertive and united Europe in Space – SpaceWatch.Global
    • EU Plan To Boost Space Industry Draws White House Ire – Breaking Defense
  • Japan:
    • US vows cooperation with Japan in space – Nikkei Asian Review
    • Russia, Japan discuss cooperation in space industry — deputy premier – TASS
  • Russia:
    • Funding for Russian space industry to be expanded – TASS
    • Roscosmos plans to make 10 Angara rockets annually from 2024 – Rogozin – Interfax
    • UK eases sanctions on Russia under Mars exploration project – TASS
    • First Emirati astronaut lands with Russian and US crewmates from space station | collectSPACE
    • Russia’s space corporation eyes talks on longer spaceflight of UAE astronauts – TASS
  • UAE:
    • Khalifa university awards its first-ever honorary doctorate to first Emirati astronaut – ZAWYA MENA Edition
  •  UK:
    • Britain’s National Space Council: Putting the ‘bloody Union Jack’ on top of spacepower? – SpaceWatch.Global
    • UK tries to get ahead in European space race – POLITICO
    • Sutherland spaceport plans cover ‘extensive’ site – BBC News
    • Councillors to scrutinise early Sutherland space port plans next week | Press and Journal

Webcasts:

** Mission Eve: Episode 0104: Deborah Tomek

Deborah Tomek’s journey to become the Acting Director of NASA STED was far from easy. While at times struggling with self-doubt and confidence, she reminds us what it means to listen to your inner voice and strive to become the mentor you wish you had when you were younger. She’s worked on wind-tunnel tests, led research on the Space Shuttle heat shield, and so much more—all leading to her current position at NASA STED, which develops the technology that, years from now, will forever change how we live and work in space.

** The Space Show – Fri, 10/04/2019 – Space lawyer Laura Montgomery talked about “Planetary Protection, commercial space, human spaceflight regulations, commercial space law, space property rights and much more”.

** The Space Show – Tue, 10/01/2019 – Michelle Hanlon talked about “For All Moonkind, preserving and protecting space and cultural artifacts, Apollo lunar sites, lunar site protection in general and more”.

** October 1, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

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