Events of Interest: Weeks of August 5-18, 2012-UPDATE
UPDATE: NASA’s industry forum on the commercial crew program on Wednesday, August 8, has been added. August is a slow month for space policy events — and most other things …
NASA To Hold Commercial Crew Program Forum at KSC on August 8
As announced on Friday by NASA officials as they revealed the winners of the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCAP) awards, Kennedy Space Center (KSC) will hold an industry forum on …
Senate Appropriators Reveal EELV Contract Savings, Reduce Budget Commensurately
The full Senate Appropriations Committee reported out the FY2013 defense appropriations bill on Thursday. The committee’s report reveals that the Department of Defense (DOD) negotiated significant savings in its launch …
Senate Intelligence Committee Supports New Launch Entrants, Some Concerned About Commercial Imagery
The Senate Intelligence Committee is joining the chorus of congressional overseers of U.S. space launch policy and funding in emphasizing the need to let “new entrants” like SpaceX compete for Air Force and National Reconnaissance …
Updated SpacePolicyOnline.com Legislative Checklist Now Available
An updated version of SpacePolicyOnline.com’s checklist of major space-related legislation in the 112th Congress is now available. The updated checklist provides links to new bills and committee reports on space-related …
NASA Makes it Official: Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada are CCiCAP Winners
NASA officially announced this morning that Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada are the winners of the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCAP) awards. Some news organizations broke the story last night. The …
NASA's CCiCAP Partners Have Diverse Design Approaches
One factor that led NASA to choose the three companies it did for Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCAP) awards is their diverse design approaches to meeting NASA’s need to ferry astronauts …
NASA IG Finds Parkinson Violated Advisory Committee Rules in LightSquared Case, But Not Intentionally
NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released the results of an investigation into whether Brad Parkinson and others on the government’s GPS advisory board violated conflict of interest rules when …
NBC Announces CCiCAP Winners! We'll See If They're Right Tomorrow-MODIFIED
MODIFICATION: We have modified the fourth paragraph in response to Alan Boyle’s comment (posted below) that his story quoted the Wall Street Journal as to which companies were the big …
Tauri Group Forecasts Robust Suborbital Market, House Hearing Examines Issues
The Tauri Group, an Alexandria, VA -based consulting firm, forecasts a robust business for suborbital reusable launch vehicles (SRVs) in a report prepared for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and …