A selection of space policy/politics related items:
- Space Policy Events for February 10-14, 2014
- Shiloh spaceport study gets underway, but is it too late for SpaceX? – NewSpace Journal
- NASA officials seek commercial interest for surplus facilities – Florida Today
- Mica to Hold Congressional Hearing: Assessing NASA’s Underutilized Property Assets at the Kennedy Space Center – Congressman John Mica
- Chelyabinsk: An Insurance Perspective – SpaceNews.com
- SLS Engineer Seeks To Run against Mo Brooks as an Independent – SpaceNews.com
- Future Space Activities Depend on Communication – SpaceNews.com
- White House Gets It Right on Space Station – SpaceNews.com
- Library: A Round-up of Reading – Res Communis
- Canada’s space ambitions need a budget boost: A welcome new strategy outlining Canada’s future role in space won’t achieve lift-off without solid funding for the Canadian Space Agency. – Editorial/Toronto Star
- Ready for Command? – SpaceNews.com – Wayne A. Ellis is president of the Canadian Space Society.
- Italian Space Agency Chief Offers To Resign amid Corruption Probe – SpaceNews.com
- Galileo works, and works well – ESA
- The Space Review:
- Balancing safety and cost in commercial human spaceflight – Jeff Foust
- A decadal survey for human scientific exploration of space: a focus on discovery – Mark Greenhouse
- Why not return to the Moon? (part 2) – Anthony Young
- Review: X-15 – Jeff Foust –
- X-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age by John Anderson and Richard Passman