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Library: A Round-up of Reading

Articles
Kevin Pomfret, Steven Ramage, Spatial Data Infrastructures – More Than Directives, Directions Magazine

Mary Ellen O’Connell, The International Law of Drones, ASIL Insight

Reports
Space Acquisitions: Challenges in Commercializing Technologies Developed under the Small Business Innovation Research Program. GAO-11-21, November 10.

Union of Concerned Scientists – Securing the Skies (2010): Ten Steps the United States Should Take to Improve the Security and Sustainability of Space

Blogs
Google Maps to Blame for Nicaragua’s Invasion of Costa Rica? – Opinio Juris

What’s In The U.S.-India Export Agreement? – Export Law Blog

White House Response on Asteroid Threat (Following on NASA NRC Ad Hoc Committee Report); Supports NASA Leading Efforts – Planetary Defense

Rusty Schweickart’s Lecture at Stanford: “The Asteroid Challenge: Will We Be Ready?” – Planetary Defense

Senate to examine NASA and its new authorization act – Space Politics

Reining in the drones – The Multilateralist

SpySats for Saudi Arabia? – Songs of Space & Nuclear War

Costa Rican-Nicaraguan Country Border Updated on Google Earth – Google Lat Long Blog

Spatial Law and Policy Update (November 13, 2010) – Spatial Law and Policy

New Crew Transportation Requirements NASA Won’t Let You See – NASA Watch

Envoys of Mankind Merit Mutual Protection – Spaceports