{"id":2378,"date":"2013-05-20T22:21:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T22:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2013-05-20T22:21:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T22:21:03","slug":"space-policy-roundup-may-20-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2378","title":{"rendered":"Space policy roundup &#8211; May 20, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Foust reports on how Charles Bolden sees NASA&#8217;s commercial crew program and how it is seen by a staffer to\u00a0 Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), who is chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that sets NASA&#8217;s funding: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacepolitics.com\/2013\/05\/19\/differing-perspectives-on-commercial-crew\/\" target=\"_d\">Differing perspectives on commercial crew &#8211; Space Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff writes about the struggles by the planetary science community to avoid cuts in NASA funding: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacepolitics.com\/2013\/05\/17\/nasa-operating-plan-may-reverse-congressional-increase-in-planetary-science\/\" target=\"_d\">NASA operating plan may reverse Congressional increase in planetary science &#8211; Space Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Berger asks the big question about NASA: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/sciguy\/2013\/05\/is-nasa-about-jobs-or-actually-accomplishing-something\/\" target=\"_d\">Is NASA about jobs, or actually accomplishing something? &#8211; SciGuy\/Houston Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eric notes that regardless of Republican complaints about the Administration&#8217;s NASA policies, they vote to reduce its budget: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/sciguy\/2013\/05\/washington-is-stinting-nasa-as-usual\/\" target=\"_d\">Washington is stinting NASA, as usual &#8211; SciGuy\/Houston Chronicle blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Res Communis posts the latest collection of space and aviation related law, regulation and policy links: <a href=\"http:\/\/rescommunis.olemiss.edu\/2013\/05\/19\/library-a-round-up-of-reading-233\/\" target=\"_d\">Library: A Round-up of Reading <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Foust reports on how Charles Bolden sees NASA&#8217;s commercial crew program and how it is seen by a staffer to\u00a0 Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), who is chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that sets NASA&#8217;s funding: Differing perspectives on commercial crew &#8211; Space Politics. Jeff writes about the struggles by the planetary science community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space policy roundup &#8211; May 20, 2013<\/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-2378","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-Cm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2058,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2058","url_meta":{"origin":2378,"position":0},"title":"Space policy roundup &#8211; May 1, 2013","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA pays Russia for Soyuz flights while waiting for Congress to fund the commercial crew transport program: NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Catch 22 as another $424m heads to Russia - NASASpaceFlight.com NASA uses Soyuz deal to push for commercial crew funding - Space Politics --- A leading astronomy organization criticizes cuts\u2026","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":1421,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1421","url_meta":{"origin":2378,"position":1},"title":"Space Policy: NASA budget and sequestration, commercial crew &#038; planetary exploration","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeff Foust discusses the effects of sequestration on NASA's budget, and the commercial crew program in particular : Sequestration\u2019s effects on commercial crew, and planning for FY14 - Space Politics === Bill Nye, aka the Science Guy and and the CEO of the Planetary Society, thanks members and other space\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space Policy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space Policy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/HEGaGx_vgd8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3490,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3490","url_meta":{"origin":2378,"position":2},"title":"Space policy roundup &#8211; July.18.13 [Update 2]","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Committees in the House and Senate continue working on legislation that includes funding for NASA in the 2014 Federal government's fiscal year , which theoretically should start on October 1st. 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