The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia is not keen on tax breaks for commercial interests such as the ZeroGravity, ZeroTax policy for space businesses in Virginia: ZeroGravity, ZeroTax Exemption Becomes Gubernatorial Campaign Issue in Virginia – Spaceports Blog
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Various articles dealing with general space policy and the SLS, which is gobbling up a big share of NASA’s budget despite having no affordable missions to justify it:
- Space policy viewed through an exoplanetary lens – Space Politics
- Continued Sequestration Will Short-Circuit SLS – Aviation Week
- Political wrangling pulls NASA in different directions: NASA’s ability to achieve new space-explorations milestones is in jeopardy, experts say, because of disagreements between the administration and Congress over the agency’s priorities – USA Today
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Upcoming space policy related happenings: Space Policy Events for the Week of May 13-17, 2013
Update: A Congressional staffer influential on space matters is leaving the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee: Jeff Bingham to Leave Senate Commerce Committee – SpacepolicyOnline.com