{"id":6182,"date":"2014-01-24T17:15:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T17:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2014-01-24T17:15:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T17:15:50","slug":"space-policy-roundup-jan-24-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6182","title":{"rendered":"Space policy roundup &#8211; Jan.24.14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploremars.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Explore Mars<\/a>\u00a0organization sponsored a recent workshop in DC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Workshop Report WASHINGTON, DC<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 January 14, 2014 \u2014 A global working group of more than sixty leaders from more than thirty government, industry and academic organizations issued a joint statement today announcing consensus that a human mission to Mars is both feasible and affordable assuming policy consistency among international space agencies and levels of funding consistent with pre-sequestration levels and modest increases annually in line with inflation\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploremars.org\/?p=9383\" target=\"_blank\">View Report<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The latest selection of space policy related links:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20140124\/COLUMNISTS0205\/301240005\/Guest-column-Seek-common-space-goal\" target=\"_d\">Guest column: Seek common space goal &#8211; Florida Today<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Simberg_Space\/status\/426750534989537280\" target=\"_d\">Twitter \/ Simberg_Space:<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;He mischaracterizes my opinion, and column. I didn&#8217;t say there was no role for government.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceksc.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/chasing-dream.html\" target=\"_d\">Chasing the Dream &#8211; Space KSC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/space\/os-station-casis-science-20140116,0,1421156.story?track=rss\" target=\"_d\">NASA extends International Space Station 2024, but is the science worth it? &#8211; Orlando Sentinel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spacepolicyonline.com\/news\/presidents-fy2015-budget-request-to-be-one-month-late?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Spacepolicyonline+%28SpacePolicyOnline+News%29\" target=\"_d\">President&#8217;s FY2015 Budget Request to Be One Month Late &#8211; SpacePolicyOnline<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacenews.com\/article\/civil-space\/39231nasa-will-miss-congressional-deadline-for-next-discovery-solicitation\" target=\"_d\">NASA Will Miss Congressional Deadline for Next Discovery Solicitation &#8211; SpaceNews.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/casey-dreier\/2014\/0123-lockheed-closes-out-the-asrg-program-and-ships-hardware-to-nasa-glenn.html\" target=\"_d\">Closing out the ASRG program &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:04ce340e-4b63-4d23-9695-d49ab661f385&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3a04ce340e-4b63-4d23-9695-d49ab661f385Post%3a098bbea3-a78f-412f-906f-55ae9352aa9b\" target=\"_d\">Catastrophic Space Debris Events Every 5-9 Years: Report &#8211; On Space\/Aviation Week<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaspace.com\/?p=50041\" target=\"_d\">The Reasons for H.R. 3625 &#8211; AmericaSpace<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; No, it&#8217;s an absurdly unreasonable bill meant to protect boondoggles.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/news\/article\/toxic-russian-rocket-fuel-target-of-kazakh-anger\/493275.html?ask_mobile=Y\" target=\"_d\">Toxic Russian Rocket Fuel Target of Kazakh Anger &#8211; The Moscow Times<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Explore Mars\u00a0organization sponsored a recent workshop in DC: Workshop Report WASHINGTON, DC\u00a0\u2014 January 14, 2014 \u2014 A global working group of more than sixty leaders from more than thirty government, industry and academic organizations issued a joint statement today announcing consensus that a human mission to Mars is both feasible and affordable assuming policy consistency &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6182\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space policy roundup &#8211; Jan.24.14<\/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-6182","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-1BI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6683,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6683","url_meta":{"origin":6182,"position":0},"title":"FISO: Overview of the Affording Mars workshop","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 27, 2014","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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