Some recent space policy related posts:

• Tweaking the proposed export control reforms for hosted payloads and suborbital vehicles « Space Politics
• In space, Chinese are still far behind – Florida Today
• Ariane 5 rocket upgrades could be accelerated – Spaceflight Now
• Former army boss Walt Natynczyk tapped to lead Canadian Space Agency – Globalnews.ca
• House Passes FY2014 NDAA With ORS Amendment – spacepolicyonline.com
• Space Policy Events of Interest for the Week of June 17-21, 2013

Update:  Res Communis posts the latest collection of space and aviation related law, regulation and policy links: Library: A Round-up of Reading.

Some space policy items today:

• The Call of Mars – NYTimes.com Buzz Aldrin
• Draft NASA Authorization Bill Nixes Asteroid Retrieval Mission – SpaceNews.com
• NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission May Lack a Viable Target | Innerspace.net
• House hearing next week on new NASA authorization bill – Space Politics
• Announcement of Opportunity to Submit Input to Study on Human Spaceflight –  Roger Launius’s Blog

Links to some recent space policy related items:

• NASA operating plan adjusts commercial crew, planetary science funding – Space Politics
• Confirmed: NASA Defies the Will of Congress by Raiding Planetary Science Funding – The Planetary Society
• Suborbital research enters a time of transition – The Space Review
• A values-based approach toward national space policy – The Space Review:
  • National Space Policy – Transterrestrial Musings
• Transportation and Commerce Departments One Step Closer to New Leadership – spacepolicyonline.com

Update: Here’s another item of interest: The National Academies wants you(r thoughts) – Space Politics

Some recent US space policy items:

• Is Catching An Asteroid The Best Way To Mars? – Aviation Week
• HASC Subcommittee Chairman Demands Answers on Alleged Chinese ASAT Test – SpacePolicyOnline.com
• Announcement of Opportunity to Submit Input to Study on Human Spaceflight – National Space Society Blog
• HSS&T Committee Members Skeptical of Administration’s STEM Proposal – SpacePolicyOnline.com

And a couple of global space policy items:

• CNES, ESA Eye Near-Term Ariane 5 Performance Boost – Aviation Week
• Russia Boosting Space Budget To Surpass China, Equal Europe – SpaceNews.com