The web site California Chronicle reports that not one but two space-related pieces of legislation made it out of committee in the California State Senate this week. (The article looks suspiciously like a press release from the office of Sen. Roy Ashburn, the sponsor of the bills, although it does not (yet) appear on his official web site.) One, as reported earlier, is SB 1671, the Mojave spaceport loan bill. The other, SB 1698, would provide $2 million for the California Space Enterprise Competitive Grant Program, an effort started in 1997 to “develop space enterprise in California”.
