Comments on: Authorization update http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/07/21/authorization-update-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=authorization-update-2 Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/07/21/authorization-update-2/#comment-3748 Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:20:37 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=611#comment-3748 Unfortunately, another “Clinton go to hell” law has not been, and will not be, repealed, the shift of satellite export control to the State Department. Much as I support the Space Station as an essential step, this law is proving far more ruinous to the United States’ future in space commerce than the INA.

— Donald

]]> By: Greg Kuperberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/07/21/authorization-update-2/#comment-3747 Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:36:16 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=611#comment-3747 That’s pretty bad. But then, if it’s both ruinous and sponsored by a Democrat, it’s extremely unlikely to pass.

The INA is also ruinous — for the space station, albeit not for the country. I’m sure that they will find a way to repeal or ignore it. Besides, it was partly a “Clinton can go to hell” measure all along; to that extent, it is now obsolete.

]]> By: Jim Muncy http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/07/21/authorization-update-2/#comment-3746 Fri, 22 Jul 2005 06:26:31 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=611#comment-3746 Actually, Aerospace Daily got the Costello amendment completely wrong. The amendment *only* preserves an exemption for non-U.S. content in contracts required for ISS, so other cooperative programs (eg. the Hubble robot, which had Canadian robotics) are screwed. (Please, I know the robot is dead, and the amendment grandfathers existing programs, but the point is the same: future international programs are impacted, unless they are related to ISS obligations.) Basically this is an extreme form of Buy American, and neither NASA nor many others are clear exactly what the provision in HR3070 really means, let alone what the amendment would do. In any case, NASA opposes the provision and the amendment.

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