{"id":2405,"date":"2013-05-21T15:23:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2013-05-21T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:23:40","slug":"space-policy-roundup-may-21-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2405","title":{"rendered":"Space Policy roundup &#8211; May 21, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a House hearing today on deep space exploration policy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacepolitics.com\/2013\/05\/21\/moon-versus-asteroids-on-the-path-to-mars\/\" target=\"_d\">Moon versus asteroids on the path to Mars &#8211; Space Politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/science.house.gov\/hearing\/subcommittee-space-next-steps-human-exploration-mars-and-beyond\" target=\"_d\">Next Steps in Human Exploration to Mars and Beyond &#8211; Committee on Science &#8211; U.S. House of Representatives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The witnesses include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Louis Friedman, Co-Lead, Keck Institute for Space Studies Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study and Executive Director Emeritus, The Planetary Society<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Paul Spudis, Senior Staff Scientist, Lunar and Planetary Institute<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Steven M. Squyres, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Douglas Cooke, Owner, Cooke Concepts and Solutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Robert Zubrin offers his usual calm and considered thoughts on the proposed asteroid retrieval mission: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacenews.com\/article\/opinion\/35405nasa%E2%80%99s-asteroid-absurdity#.UZuMq9jHab9\" target=\"_d\">NASA\u2019s Asteroid Absurdity &#8211; SpaceNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Planetary Society&#8217;s view: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/press-room\/releases\/2013\/05-official-statement-on-nasa-asteroid-mission.html\" target=\"_d\">The Planetary Society Announces Conditional Support of NASA&#8217;s Asteroid Mission &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>A comment from Stewart Money on the Bigelow contract from NASA to study public\/commercial partnerships for deep space exploration:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/innerspace.net\/2013\/05\/21\/exploring-nasas-agreement-with-bigelow\/\" target=\"_d\">Exploring NASA\u2019s Agreement with Bigelow &#8211; Innerspace.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a House hearing today on deep space exploration policy: Moon versus asteroids on the path to Mars &#8211; Space Politics Next Steps in Human Exploration to Mars and Beyond &#8211; Committee on Science &#8211; U.S. House of Representatives The witnesses include: Dr. Louis Friedman, Co-Lead, Keck Institute for Space Studies Asteroid Retrieval Mission &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space Policy roundup &#8211; May 21, 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-2405","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-CN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4372,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4372","url_meta":{"origin":2405,"position":0},"title":"FISO: Small Bodies Assessment Group&#8217;s low assessment of the asteroid retrieval mission","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. 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