{"id":2254,"date":"2013-05-12T22:09:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T22:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2013-05-13T05:25:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T05:25:20","slug":"space-policy-roundup-may-12-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2254","title":{"rendered":"Space policy roundup &#8211; May.12.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia is not keen on tax breaks for commercial interests such as the <em>ZeroGravity, ZeroTax<\/em> policy for space businesses in Virginia: <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceports.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/zerogravity-zerotax-exemption-becomes.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Spaceports+%28Spaceports%29\">ZeroGravity, ZeroTax Exemption Becomes Gubernatorial Campaign Issue in Virginia &#8211; Spaceports Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Various articles dealing with general space policy and the SLS, which is gobbling up a big share of NASA&#8217;s budget despite having no affordable missions to justify it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacepolitics.com\/2013\/05\/12\/space-policy-viewed-through-an-exoplanetary-lens\/\">Space policy viewed through an exoplanetary lens &#8211; Space Politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/Article.aspx?id=\/article-xml\/AW_05_06_2013_p22-574390.xml\">Continued Sequestration Will Short-Circuit SLS &#8211; Aviation Week <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2013\/05\/10\/congress-and-administration-at-odds-on-nasa-mission\/2151559\/\">Political wrangling pulls NASA in different directions: <em>NASA&#8217;s ability to achieve new space-explorations milestones is in jeopardy, experts say, because of disagreements between the administration and Congress over the agency&#8217;s priorities<\/em> &#8211; USA Today <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming space policy related happenings: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacepolicyonline.com\/news\/space-policy-events-for-the-week-of-may-13-17-2013\">Space Policy Events for the Week of May 13-17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: A Congressional staffer influential on space matters is leaving the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacepolicyonline.com\/news\/jeff-bingham-to-leave-senate-commerce-committee?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Spacepolicyonline+%28SpacePolicyOnline+News%29\">Jeff Bingham to Leave Senate Commerce Committee &#8211; SpacepolicyOnline.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia is not keen on tax breaks for commercial interests such as the ZeroGravity, ZeroTax policy for space businesses in Virginia: ZeroGravity, ZeroTax Exemption Becomes Gubernatorial Campaign Issue in Virginia &#8211; Spaceports Blog &#8212; Various articles dealing with general space policy and the SLS, which is gobbling up a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space policy roundup &#8211; May.12.13<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Am","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2130,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2130","url_meta":{"origin":2254,"position":0},"title":"Space policy roundup &#8211; 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