COMSTAC Meeting, October 2015

COMSTAC Meeting, October 2015

The FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) met on October 21, 2015.   COMSTAC is a federally-chartered advisory committee that provides advice to the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST).   SpacePolicyOnline.com published a summary of comments made by George Nield, FAA’s Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, regarding his position on a proposal by European Space Agency Director General Johannes-Dietrich Woerner for building a village on the Moon.   Another article summarized comments by Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) and Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA) regarding the status of legislation on Capitol Hill.   The two articles are as follows: