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):
- SLS:
- Artemis lunar program:
- A House budget committee has likely killed the 2024 Moon landing | Ars Technica
- Key House appropriator remains skeptical about Artemis – SpaceNews.com
- Serrano Worried About Who Will Pay for Accelerating Moon Program – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- How to make an urgent and affordable return to the Moon – The Space Review
- NASA:
- NASA Administrator Selects Douglas Loverro as Human Spaceflight Head | NASA
- Doug Loverro Named New Head of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- Non-stories from NASA reveal mainstream press corruption – Behind The Black
- Astronaut organization seeks role advising Artemis – SpaceNews.com
- Commercial Crew:
- Space economics:
- Spectrum:
- Orbital debris:
- Spaceports:
- US military space:
- SpaceX sees U.S. Army as possible customer for Starlink and Starship – SpaceNews.com
- Pentagon presses case for Space Force amid political uncertainty – SpaceNews.com
- Army eyes commercial megaconstellations to support its future battlefield network – SpaceNews.com
- Army looks for alternatives to GPS as enemies threaten to jam signals – SpaceNews.com
- International Space
- A Euroconsult Analysis: Examining government space budgets – SatMagazine
- Australia:
- China:
- China’s Space Station Progress,”High Density” Missions Planned – LeonardDavid.com
- China prepares for space station construction – Xinhua
- China Focus: China’s first astronaut expects stepping onto Moon – Xinhua
- Initial research on rocket ends successfully – ecns.cn
- Planned new rocket carries hope for China’s manned lunar landing program – Xinhua
- Japan:
- Russia:
- Saudi Arabia:
- UAE:
Webcasts:
** Hearing: “NASA’s Proposal to Advance the Next Moon Landing by Four Years” – Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
** The Space Show – Mon, 10/14/2019 – Robert Zimmerman of www.behindtheblack.com “covered multiple topics in this one segment 123 minute program featuring listener phone calls and email questions”.
** How millennials are impacting aerospace | Interview – TMRO.tv
Laura Seward Forczyk, author of the book, “Rise of the Space Age Millennials” joins us to talk about the new generation entering the workforce. Specifically the impact millennials are having in unexpected ways on the entire aerospace industry as well as some of the hurdles the generation is presented with.
** October 15, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black
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