A selection of space policy/politics related links:

• NASA to buy more Soyuz seats for space station crews – Spaceflight Now
• Is now the time to start working on space property rights? – Space Politics
• California offers tax break jackpot for space companies; New Mexico wants better use of spaceport tax – Space Politics
• California weighs giving tax break to space exploration firms – Reuters/Yahoo Finance
• Bill would halt spending of leftover Spaceport America tax money – Las Cruces Sun-News
• $1.5M sought for temporary visitor center at spaceport – ABQJournal Online
•  NM State Senator: Two state authorities misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars – KFOX14 El Paso 
• Web life: Space Politics – physicsworld.com
• First Look at ‘Challenger: An American Tragedy’ – Space.com
• Experts: China Boosts Space Warfare Capabilities – Washington Free Beacon
• Is Projek Angkasawan Lost In Space? – MalaysianDigest.com

Update:

• House Science Committee to examine “necessary updates” to commercial launch law – Space Politics
• House SS&T Hrg on Commercial Space Launch Act, Feb 2014, DC – SpacePolicyOnline.com

A selection of space policy/politics related items:

• Rick Boozer, Monday, 1-27-14 – Thespaceshow’s Blog – Rick gives an update on the SLS/Orion boondoggles.
• NASA To Order More Soyuz Seats – SpaceNews.com – Those in Congress who set NASA budget prefer the agency buys Russian Soyuz services than US commercial transport services since the latter threatens SLS/Orion pork for their states and districts.
• Station Role In Earth Science Growing – Aviation Week – ISS provides a low cost platform for earth observation systems delivered by commercial cargo transports.
• NASA Planning for Mission To Mine Water on the Moon – SpaceNews.com
• We Need To Get More Comfortable With People Dying In Space – The Federalist
• Did We Break Space? – NationalJournal.com
• Dr. Paul Spudis, Sunday, 1-26-14 – Thespaceshow’s Blog
• The Other Sad Space Anniversary – Transterrestrial Musings
• India joins the space race  – USA Today
• Russian Space Agency Plans World’s Biggest Rocket – International Space Fellowship

Update:

• Florida Space Industry to Visit Capitol on March 12 [with] Former Astronaut Bob Crippen – Florida Space Day
• HASC Told China’s Counterspace Capabilities “Extremely Serious” – SpacePolicyOnline.com

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Rick Boozer will be back on The Space Show today at 2-3:30 pm PST (5-6:30 pm  EST, 4-5:30 pm CST). He will give an update on “his book from last year, The Plundering of NASA, his suggestions for programs other than SLS, and his work with the Space Development Steering Committee“.

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

• Space Policy Events for January 27-31, 2014 – SpacePolicyOnline
• ULA signs deal to deliver three-dozen booster cores – Spaceflight Now
• This Week’s Book Review – Safe is Not an Option – Ricochet.com
• Space Property Rights: It’s Time, and Here’s Where to Start – Berin Szoka/Jim Dunstan – SpaceNews.com
• Editorial | Better Late than Never – SpaceNews.com
• WGS Sales to Allies Undermine U.S. Comsatcom Industry- SpaceNews.com
• Mars 2020: Its Origins, Science and Technology – SpaceNews.com
• Library: A Round-up of Reading – Res Communis
• The Space Review: 
  • Commercial crew’s critical year – Jeff Foust
  • Achieving cheap access to space: the foundation of commercialization (part 2) – Charles Miller
  • A brief look at the legal and political implications of Japan’s space debris removal plans – Michael Listner
  • Celebrating space – Ken Murphy
  • Review: Wheels Stop
• International Relations in Space – Visual.ly – A space policy infographic. (It shows the Moon Treaty as if it is comparable to the Outer Space Treaty but it has not actually been signed by any spacefaring countries. )

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The latest selection of space policy related links:

• Guest column: Seek common space goal – Florida Today
  • Twitter / Simberg_Space: “He mischaracterizes my opinion, and column. I didn’t say there was no role for government.”
• Chasing the Dream – Space KSC
• NASA extends International Space Station 2024, but is the science worth it? – Orlando Sentinel
• President’s FY2015 Budget Request to Be One Month Late – SpacePolicyOnline
• NASA Will Miss Congressional Deadline for Next Discovery Solicitation – SpaceNews.com
• Closing out the ASRG program – The Planetary Society
• Catastrophic Space Debris Events Every 5-9 Years: Report – On Space/Aviation Week
• The Reasons for H.R. 3625 – AmericaSpace – No, it’s an absurdly unreasonable bill meant to protect boondoggles.
• Toxic Russian Rocket Fuel Target of Kazakh Anger – The Moscow Times