NASA Advisory Council Regulatory and Policy Committee (NAC/RPC), May 2020
The NASA Advisory Council’s Regulatory and Policy Committee (NAC/RPC) met virtually on May 15, 2020 (amidst the coronavirus pandemic, which precluded an in-person meeting).
The committee discussed several issues, but the highlight was the unveiling of the Artemis Accords by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. They are a set of 10 principles the United States wants international partners to adopt if they want to participate in the Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon. Bridenstine also used the opportunity to criticize China after debris from a Long March 5B rocket stage landed in Africa after an uncontrolled reentry from orbit.
SpacePolicyOnline.com published two articles summarizing those aspects of the meeting: