House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Hearing on Commercial Space Launch, June 2016

The Aviation Subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee held a rare hearing on commercial space launch issues on June 22, 2016.   Most of the issues are under the jurisdiction of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, but T&I oversees the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as a whole, so has some oversight interest.   SpacePolicyOnline.com published a summary of the hearing on June 24.  Witnesses were:

• George Nield, Associate Administrator. FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST)
• Gerald Dillingham,
  Government Accountability Office (GAO);
• Mike Gold, chairman of the FAA’s
  Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC);
• Michael
  Lopez-Alegria, COMSTAC Vice Chair; and
• Taber MacCallum, World View
  Enterprises