A selection of today’s space policy/politics related links:
- Dennis Tito’s ‘Spaceship to Everywhere’: a Dead-end for NASA – AstroMaven – Rick Boozer responds to Dennis Tito’s recent op-ed in favor of the SLS.
- Human Space Exploration: The Way Forward – SpaceNews.com O. Glenn Smith (Former Shuttle systems engineering manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center):”Sustainable budgets are critical. The Augustine committee’s foremost recommendation was, “Whatever space program is ultimately selected, it must be matched with the resources needed for its execution.” Constellation was clearly a bridge too far. SLS/Orion will be a white elephant and is set to dissipate NASA resources for a very long time with very little useful result. As SLS/Orion is necessarily canceled, NASA needs to switch available funds to tasks that will contribute to the next destination station in geosynchronous orbit or at a Lagrangian point, while retaining critical skills in the space community. “
- Space Policy Events for March 30 – April 4, 2014 – spacepolicyonline.com
- Congressional skepticism of NASA’s asteroid plans remains – Space Politics
- 25 Years of Commercial Launches – Citizens in Space
- Can Elon Musk Convince the U.S. Senate to Level the Playing Field — and Save Taxpayers Billions of Dollars in the Process? – Motley Fool – The writer is confused about the AF block buy of 36 ULA launches. Those have not yet taken off.
- Book Review: Marketing the Moon – The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program – Leonard David
- The Politics of Propulsion – Space Foundation
- Waiting for Trouble – SpaceNews.com
- Editorial | Little Tantalizes in U.S. Air Force Budget – SpaceNews.com
- The Space Review:
Update: Webcasts
- Dennis Wingo, Sunday, 3-30-14 – Thespaceshow’s Blog – Dennis discusses his essay, The Path Forward In American Space-2014 Edition – March 6, 2014.