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:
- Space law:
- Commercial crew:
- Commercial crew’s day finally arrives – The Space Review
- Elon Musk beats out Boeing in the space race to launch NASA astronauts – Florida Today
- This is SpaceX’s big chance to really make history | MIT Technology Review
- With Demo-2, NASA finds itself in foreign yet familiar territory – NASASpaceFlight.com
- SpaceX mission will put NASA back in business – Orlando Sentinel
- Trump has much at stake in outcome of SpaceX’s Dragon launch – The Washington Post
- In space exploration, freedom wins again | Behind The Black
- FAA post flight restrictions around Cape Canaveral for historic manned space launch – DCNewsRoom
- Commercial space:
- Space politics:
- Regulation:
- Space traffic:
- US states space:
- Space cybersecurity:
- US national security:
- USSPACECOM releases first formal order to execute multinational space operations – United States Space Command
- USSPACECOM campaign plan, new mission focus on defeating adversaries – United States Space Command
- Air Force: Report on space acquisition reforms ‘not finalized’ – SpaceNews.com
- U.S. Army signs deal with SpaceX to assess Starlink broadband – SpaceNews.com
- Future space:
International space
- Canada:
- China:
- Europe:
- India:
- Russia:
- UK:
Webcasts:
** The Space Show – Fri. 05/22/2020 – Cristina T. Chaplain “who is now a retired GAO director focusing on space, defense and related industries. Don’t miss this excellent assessment of NASA, DOD, PPP and more”.
** E16 – Value of Space (with Mick Gleason and Sam Wilson) – Aerospace CSPS on Vimeo – A multi-participant discussion of the recent Value of Space (pdf) report from the Aerospace Corp.
** Why Did NASA’s Head Of Human Spaceflight Resign Just Before Historic Launch? – Scott Manley
Last Monday NASA announced that Doug Loverro, head of human spaceflight at NASA was resigning only 6 months after starting the job, and just over a week before the historic return to flight for the human spaceflight program. We know it’s not related to the Commercial Crew Program and is going to have no effect on the upcoming launch, but we don’t have much in the way of concrete information to go on. Right now the theory is that this is related to the procurement of the Human landing system, but we could be wrong.
** May 22, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black
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