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Review of U.S. Space Policy

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty

From Aviation Week:

U.S. Space Policy Review Under Way

Jul 22, 2009

By Frank Morring, Jr.

National Security Adviser James Jones is conducting a government-wide review of U.S. space policy at the request of President Barack Obama, as former Lockheed Martin CEO Norm Augustine heads into the final set of public hearings on the review he is conducting of human spaceflight options.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told Aviation Week July 21 that Jones – like Bolden a retired Marine Corps general officer – was directed to “review our present policy and decide whether it is in keeping with our vision of the 21st century and where we want to go, and try to come up with a coherent space policy into which NASA and our plans fit, and ideally they would fit perfectly. . . . [Full Story]