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After last week’s New York Times report that the US Air Force and the Bush Administration were considering policy changes that would permit the deployment of weapons in space, the issue is still reverberating among columnists. A prime example is a syndicated column by Ann McFeatters, the Washington bureau chief for two newspapers. She believes […] The International Space Station is facing a number of key policy issues: how to maintain US access to Soyuz spacecraft in spite of the Iran Non-proliferation Act, managing an assembly schedule that has to wrap up when the shuttle retires in 2010, finding the best alternatives—commercial or otherwise—for cargo access to ISS, and so on. […] The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), widely billed as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, is facing some serious problems that could lead to scaling back or even canceling the mission. Denver’s Rocky Mountain News and Sky & Telescope magazine both report that JWST is facing potential cost overruns of up to $1 billion, […] Wouldn’t you know that, just as the final Star Wars movie is set to premiere, the New York Times would report on a new push within the Air Force and the Bush Administration for space-based weapons. According to the report, the Air Force is asking the administration to approve a national security directive “that could […] That’s the title of a detailed article about the Vision for Space Exploration by Joel Achenbach in Sunday’s Washington Post magazine. The article doesn’t go into the nuts-and-bolts of space policy per se, but offers a broad look at space exploration for a non-professional audience. (I will note that a couple of months back Achenbach […] In an article in this week’s issue of The Space Review, I outline some of the regulatory and legislative issues the entrepreneurial space community is focusing on now. With the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act now law, attention has shifted towards developing specific regulations required by the law. In addition, advocates are studying issues like […] On Monday NASA announced that it had selected CSC to run a new “Shared Services Center”, which CSC will locate at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. That means around 500 jobs for Mississippi, which beat out Huntsville and Cleveland for the center. And that’s not sitting well with some folks in Cleveland: “It’s incredible that […] The AIAA is sponsoring a Capitol Hill forum on May 10 on “Public-Private Partnerships – The Wave of the Future?” The purpose of the forum, according to the announcement, is “to raise awareness of the potential that public-private partnerships could present for future government programs and examine models from the aerospace industry.” It’s not clear […] The editors of the Hampton Roads Daily Press sound off in support of aeronautics and earth science in a pair of editorials in this morning’s issue. The editors are skeptical that the administration cares for aeronautics research: It will take considerable will for Congress to reverse the now presidential-fueled juggernaut that threatens to dismantle this […] A reader pointed out this newsletter from the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society. The major update in this newsletter is about a delay in a planned NASA research announcement, but it also includes some good news about the future of Voyager and several other space science missions whose fate were in doubt […] |
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