More space policy/politics related items:

• Get Involved in Mars/Space Advocacy, Participate in 2014 SEA Legislative Blitz – The Mars Society
• Letter | Supporting the Upstarts Is Best Path To Success -SpaceNews.com
• Legislative committee OKs bill to return spaceport tax revenue to state – Las Cruces Sun-News
• Md. Strikes Technology Transfer Deal With NASA To Help Boost Economy – CBS Baltimore
• NASA under fire for bonus payments to contractors – Washington Times
• Another Mars Mission … but What About the Rest of the Solar System? (Op-Ed) – Space.com
• JFK and the Moon – The Once and Future Moon
• Why the Moon, and How – SpaceNews.com
• China aims for the Moon: Planned launch of lunar rover follows a string of triumphs for the country’s space programme – Nature News & Comment
• China’s Space Program Is Taking Off – Aviation Week
• EU Backing Away from Combining Milcom Constellations – SpaceNews.com
• A Milestone in Space Governance – SpaceNews.com

Some space policy/politics related items:

• Does the future of space travel lie with NASA or space entrepreneurs? – The Washington Post
• • New players in the space race – The Washington Post
• Private space companies are really taking off – Orlando Sentinel
• Bolden: need to end sequestration and prevent another shutdown – Space Politics
• Reaction to the new national space transportation policy: positive, but bland – Space Politics
• Acting SecAF highlights challenges of Pacific rebalance, space operations – U.S. Air Force
• Increased space, cyber threats top concerns for AF Space Command – AFSC
• Final Request for NASA Commercial Crew Proposals Hits the Street – SpaceNews.com
• Opinion: CBO issues short-sighted recommendations on human spaceflight – SpaceFlight Insider
• Space Policy Events for the Weeks of November 25-December 6, 2013 – SpacePolicyOnline.com

The Obama administration released their official national space transportation policy document yesterday:

• National Space Transportation Policy – The White House (pdf)
• New national space transportation policy makes modest, not major, changes – Space Politics
• Commercial Spaceflight Federation Hails Innovative National Space Transportation Policy – CSF
• U.S. Issues New Space-Transportation Policy – WSJ.com

Yet more space policy/politics links:

• Inspiration Mars and Dennis Tito at House Hearin:
  • How not to get to Mars – Bob Zimmerman/Behind The Black
  • Mr. Tito Goes to Washington (And Inspiration Mars Goes Off the Rails) | Innerspace.net
  • Inspiration Mars straight talk – Planet Plots
  • NASA balks at billionaire’s request for Mars mission aid | Crave – CNET
• JFK space race myth: Dear NASA, President Kennedy just wasn’t that into you. – Rand Simberg/USA Today
  • Dear NASA – Transterrestrial Musings
• China’s 1st Moon Lander May Cause Trouble for NASA Lunar Dust Mission – Space.com

Update:

• Fifty years after his death, JFK still casts a shadow on space policy – Space Politics
• Brent Budowsky: For JFK — USA in space – TheHill
• Fixed-price Contracts Contained Impact of Copernicus Cost Growth – SpaceNews.com
• Inspiration Mars gets a plan –  Michael Belfiore
  • Inspiration Mars: How the Two-Person Voyage Will Work – Michael Belfiore/Popular Mechanics

Some space policy/politics items:

• Tito Now Wants NASA Funding for Inspiration Mars – Here’s NASA’s Response – SpacePolicyOnline.com
• Inspiration Mars pivots, seeks government support and backing – Space Politics
• Inspiration Mars – Transterrestrial Musings
• The Commercial Spaceflight Federation Supports S. 1753 to Extend Government-Industry Risk-Sharing Regime – CSF
• House, Senate introducing separate launch indemnification extension bills – Space Politics
• Bipartisan Bill Extends Liability Protection | Committee on Science – U.S. House of Representatives
• We Haven’t Won Yet on Export Control Reforms – Breaking Defense
• JFK legacy to states: Space industry jobs – USA Today

Here’s a video, courtesy Stephen C. Smith, of yesterday’s House Science Subcommittee hearing on commercial space: