The latest on the differences between House and Senate bills. I agree with moving OCST out of the FAA, but I’d prefer to see Commerce get the responsibility for regulation of orbital activity.
Category Archives: Space
The New Astronauts
Tim Fernholz has the story of today’s announcement, which was a big “Meh” for me. Wake me up when they’ve decided that putting Americans in space on American rockets is actually important enough to start doing that.
New Glenn
Looks like it will slip. 2020 always seemed pretty aggressive, especially considering that it will be their first orbital vehicle.
A Sustainable Lunar Architecture
Bridenstine says that it has to be fully reusable.
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— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 2, 2018
Mars Society Conference
I’m on the schedule to speak about space property rights on in a plenary session on Sunday morning.
Gwynne Shotwell
A nice profile of her at Bloomberg.
Cargo Rockets
Military cargo rockets.
Glad to see this kind of thinking going on.
The OSTP On Space
This is pretty forward thinking. It would be nice if Congress would get the memo.
A Culture Of Optimism
Marina Koren has a deep dive into the mess at NASA. As I noted to her on Twitter, this goes all the way back to the 70s with Shuttle, when NASA should have told Congress it couldn’t be built to the USAF specs with the provided budget, but they instead moved forward and hoped for the best.
The Latest SLS Nonsense
Eric Berger reports on the long lead time for new (expendable) SSMEs.