Some space policy related links this Monday morning.

• Loony or logical? Bill favors national park on moon: Congressional measure would protect Apollo landing artifacts – Florida Today
• Space: The Final Frontier of Environmental Disasters? – Wired Science
• Space Policy Events for the Week of July 15-19, 2013
• Future Planetary Exploration: NASA Budget Update – Party Like It’s 1986
• Technical Experts Weigh In On NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission – SpacePolicyOnline.com
• House Wants NASA to Lay Out Commercial Crew Options Now – Parabolic Arc
• Library: A Round-up of Reading – Res Communis

Update:

• Revisiting SLS/Orion launch costs – The Space Review
• Congress Rejects NASA’s First Operating Plan |- The Planetary Society

Some space policy items from today and yesterday:

• House subcommittee approves authorization bill, but its fate beyond the House remains unclear – Space Politics
• House Committee Approves Smallest NASA Budget Since 1986 -The Planetary Society
• More Appropriations Action on FY2014 NASA, NOAA Bill Next Week – spacepolicyonline.com
• Moon landings, space debris and national park plan – BBC
• Development of U.S. Closed-loop Kerolox Engine Stuck in 2nd Gear – SpaceNews.com
• DLR’s Woerner Remains Unconvinced Just-unveiled Ariane 6 Design Is Right Way To Go – SpaceNews.com

Today’s listing of space policy relate links:

• Palazzo Vision: House Eviscerates NASA Space Act Agreements – Parabolic Arc
• House appropriators approve bill, Senate to act next week – Space Politics
• NASA Authorization Act of 2013, House Space Subcommittee, July 10, 2013 – YouTube
• House bill kills NASA mission to snag asteroid: Panel’s proposed budget cuts science program funds – Florida Today
• NASA Warned to Go Slow On Asteroid Capture Project – ScienceInsider
• Rep. Smith and Bolden Square Off on Asteroid Mission
• Asteroid retrieval is costly and uninspiring – The Hill
• We’ve Been Mooned – Sunshine State News – a lot of uninformed nonsense but unfortunately typical of columnists who will write about space without doing their homework on the issues involved.