Besides taking care of the FY2005 budget, the lame-duck session is the last chance for this Congress to pass HR 3752, the Commercial Space Transportation Amendments Act. Regular readers know about the ups and downs of this legislation, but in some introductory comments at Tuesday’s presentation by Peter Diamandis on Capitol Hill, outgoing space subcommittee chairman Dana Rohrabacher expressed some optimism about the bill’s prospects:
[The bill] is still not dead. We are still maneuvering. There have been a couple of last-minute glitches, and we’ve had some repositioning and compromises, but it’s not dead. I’m hoping to ensure its passage by the end of tomorrow, so keep your fingers crossed there.
