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

• Robert (Bob) Zimmerman, Tuesday, 12-3-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog
• The planetary science community is in an uproar over the Obama administration’s proposed …. – Behind The Black
• House bill would free up termination liability funds for NASA programs – Space Politics
• Brooks Wants SLS, Orion Contractors To Spend Termination Liability Reserves Now – SpaceNews.com
• Editorial | ORS-3: One Big Mission of Opportunity – SpaceNews.com
• How India’s cryogenic programme was wrecked – Russia & India Report
• Overhaul pending in Russian space sector – Russia & India Report

Here’s a video of yesterday’s House hearing on astrobiology:

Caption:

On December 4, 2013, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology held a hearing titled, “Astrobiology: Search for Biosignatures in our Solar System and Beyond.”

Invited witnesses were:

Dr. Mary Voytek
Senior Scientist for Astrobiology, Planetary Science Division
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Dr. Sara Seager
Class of 1941 Professor of Physics and Planetary Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Steven Dick
Baruch S. Blumberg Chair of Astrobiology, John W. Kluge Center
Library of Congress

The event was webcast live and is in the public domain.

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