{"id":17151,"date":"2018-11-27T09:56:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17151"},"modified":"2018-11-27T09:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:56:29","slug":"space-policy-roundup-nov-27-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17151","title":{"rendered":"Space policy roundup &#8211; Nov.27.2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government (US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Space settlement:\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Space Review: Small steps for space settlement\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/3610\/1\">Small steps for space settlement &#8211; The Space Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"NSS Space Ambassadors and The Future of Human Space Exploration Presentation|National Space Society\" href=\"http:\/\/space.nss.org\/nss-space-ambassadors-and-the-future-of-human-space-exploration-presentation\/\">NSS Space Ambassadors and The Future of Human Space Exploration Presentation &#8211; National Space Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Commentary: Woke NASA scientists think \u2018exploration\u2019 is \u2018problematic\u2019, oppose Mars missions | TheBlaze\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/2018\/11\/25\/commentary-woke-nasa-scientists-think-exploration-is-problematic-oppose-mars-missions\">Commentary: Woke NASA scientists think \u2018exploration\u2019 is \u2018problematic\u2019, oppose Mars missions | TheBlaze<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Space law:\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Space Review: Mars: A case study in space law\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/3609\/1\">Mars: A case study in space law &#8211; The Space Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>US military space:\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Op-ed | Real talk and real solutions to real space threats - SpaceNews.com\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/op-ed-real-talk-and-real-solutions-to-real-space-threats\/\">Op-ed | Real talk and real solutions to real space threats &#8211; SpaceNews.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Training the Space Force: How the Military Will Prepare for Future Battles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles\/2018\/11\/26\/training-the-space-force-how-the-military-will-prepare-for-future-battles\">Training the Space Force: How the Military Will Prepare for Future Battles &#8211; National Defense Magazine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Air Force Commander: Strategy to fight China in the Pacific brings greater attention to space - SpaceNews.com\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/air-force-commander-strategy-to-fight-china-in-the-pacific-gives-greater-attention-to-space\/\">Air Force Commander: Strategy to fight China in the Pacific brings greater attention to space &#8211; SpaceNews.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Editorial: Trump wants a Space Force. But he hasn't articulated why it's needed. | Editorial | stltoday.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/opinion\/editorial\/editorial-trump-wants-a-space-force-but-he-hasn-t\/article_346b8fa6-a39a-59fd-8612-50923127a8eb.html\">Editorial: Trump wants a Space Force. But he hasn&#8217;t articulated why it&#8217;s needed. | Editorial | stltoday.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Australian space:\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Woman Putting Australia Into Space - The New York Times\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/23\/world\/australia\/megan-clark-space-agency.html\">The Woman Putting Australia Into Space &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Chinese space:\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"China\u2019s $9 Billion Space Plan to Challenge the Dominance of GPS - Bloomberg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-11-25\/china-s-big-dipper-satellites-challenge-the-dominance-of-gps\">China\u2019s $9 Billion Space Plan to Challenge the Dominance of GPS &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ethiopian space:\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"China to help launch Ethiopia\u2019s first satellite in 2019 \u2014 Quartz Africa\" href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/1474369\/china-to-help-launch-ethiopias-first-satellite-in-2019\/\">China to help launch Ethiopia\u2019s first satellite in 2019 \u2014 Quartz Africa<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Russian space:\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Space Review: There are no Russians there\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/3611\/1\">There are no Russians there\u2026 &#8211; The Space Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>UK space:\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The ESA Would Not Like A Divorce With The UK Space Program\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/yiannismouratidis\/2018\/11\/24\/the-esa-would-not-like-a-divorce-with-the-uk-space-program\/#7124cf23ff22\">The ESA Would Not Like A Divorce With The UK Space Program &#8211; Forbes.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Bid to bring spaceport to Scotland under threat due to crofters' dispute | HeraldScotland\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/17255738.bid-to-bring-spaceport-to-scotland-under-threat-due-to-crofters-dispute\/\">Bid to bring spaceport to Scotland under threat due to crofters&#8217; dispute | HeraldScotland<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Webcasts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>** <a title=\"Sun, 11\/25\/2018 - 12:00 | Sarah Cruddas, Dr. David Livingston\" href=\"https:\/\/thespaceshow.com\/show\/25-nov-2018\/broadcast-3225-sarah-cruddas-open-lines\">The Space Show &#8211; Sun, 11\/25\/2018<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/thespaceshow.com\/guest\/sarah-cruddas\">Sarah Cruddas<\/a>, a British space journalist, TV presenter and children\u2019s author, talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceforhumanity.org\">Space For Humanity<\/a> program that aims to enable several &#8220;non-astronauts to travel to the edge of space&#8221; on suborbital rocket flights. This segment was followed by an open lines program led by David Livingston.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17151-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/thespaceshow.com\/sites\/default\/files\/shows\/3225-BWB-2018-11-25.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/thespaceshow.com\/sites\/default\/files\/shows\/3225-BWB-2018-11-25.mp3\">http:\/\/thespaceshow.com\/sites\/default\/files\/shows\/3225-BWB-2018-11-25.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>** <a title=\"We Know Where the 2020 Rover Will Look for Martian Life | The Planetary Society\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/multimedia\/planetary-radio\/show\/2018\/1121-2018-briony-horgan-2020-rover-jezero.html\">We Know Where the 2020 Rover Will Look for Martian Life | The Planetary Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>NASA announced on November 19th that the multi-billion dollar 2020 Mars rover will land in Jezero crater, where it will begin the search for the signature of past life. The selection process took five years, and Briony Horgan of Purdue University was part of it all. She joins us to talk about this exciting and enticing target on the Red Planet. Planetary Society Senior Editor Emily Lakdawalla prepares us for the much more imminent Mars landing of InSight. Orion in the northern hemisphere\u2019s night sky can only mean winter is coming. Just ahead of it is a new What\u2019s Up segment from Bruce and Mat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/dcs.megaphone.fm\/PPY2769282174.mp3?key=c5f6d5f0e69786c0f4b7d52185a8b001&#038;listener=938a13a1-2802-4836-a951-0ebe7d83fa1c<\/p>\n<p>**<span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Dr. Robert Zubrin - Why a lunar base is better than LOP-G - 21st Annual Mars Society Convention\"> <em><strong>Why a lunar base is better than LOP-G<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Dr. Robert Zubrin -21st Annual Mars Society Convention &#8211; A talk given in August but posted this week on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheMarsSociety\/videos?disable_polymer=1\" target=\"_d\">The Mars Society YouTube channel<\/a> along with several other presentation videos from the meeting.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/buLzhqgQbpA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1324000937\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1324000937&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkId=468ff49ede077d250412965bfd1e1e95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Einstein&#8217;s Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: none !important; 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The Space Review NSS Space Ambassadors and The Future of Human Space Exploration Presentation &#8211; National Space Society Commentary: Woke NASA scientists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space policy roundup &#8211; Nov.27.2018<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-space-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4sD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6985,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6985","url_meta":{"origin":17151,"position":0},"title":"The space settlement enabling test","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Space Frontier Foundation announces a tool to judge whether a space policy will encourage or delay space settlement: The Settlement Enabling Test\u00a0\u00a0 The Space Frontier Foundation Releases a New Metric for Crafting Space Policy Silicon Valley, CA\u00a0- The Space Frontier Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2291,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2291","url_meta":{"origin":17151,"position":1},"title":"Buzz Aldrin on The Space Show","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Buzz Aldrin was on The Space Show on Monday and discussed his Unified Space Vision, Mars settlement and his\u00a0 book, Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration, which he just released:\u00a0 Dr. Buzz Aldrin, Monday, 5-13-13 | Thespaceshow's Blog.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space Policy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space Policy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24051,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=24051","url_meta":{"origin":17151,"position":2},"title":"National Space Society&#8217;s ISDC 2021 &#8211; 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