I haven’t had time to write much this week but, at least when it comes to space policy, Mark Whittington has some interesting posts up, including a commentary on recent (useful) Congressional resistance to the Orbital Space Plane, and a righteous fisking of usually sensible John Carter McKnight’s misconceived rant against space property rights (or to be more precise, some space advocates’ advocacy of them), plus some other odds and ends.
Being a blogspotter, his permalinks are FUBAR, so just scroll down two or three days from today’s date.
Go check them out while I recombobulate here and finish my Skylab eulogy.
This could be the excuse that Bush needs to back off from his support of an extension of the “assault weapons” ban. He said that he’d support renewal, but not an expansion.
I’ve been remiss in not pointing out that the annual International Space Developement Conference, sponsored by the National Space Society, is in San Jose, California this year, over Memorial Day weekend. It looks to be a good program, and the society will be aided by attendance, particularly from out of town. If you can make it, I highly recommend attending to find out what’s happening on the frontier.