National Space Council Updates
Vice President Mike Pence to Convene Seventh Meeting of the National Space Council
“The Seventh Meeting of the National Space Council will be held in Washington, D.C. on May 19th, 2020 at 10:30 AM EDT. The meeting, chaired by Vice President Mike Pence, will convene at the NASA Headquarters building. The meeting will be livestreamed here on NASA TV, and additional details will be forthcoming.”
National Space Council Announces Users’ Advisory Group Nominations
“Vice President Mike Pence, Chairman of the National Space Council, today announced the nomination of candidates to serve on the National Space Council Users’ Advisory Group for two-year terms. The nominated members of the Users’ Advisory Group will serve to fulfill President Trump’s directive to “foster close coordination, cooperation, and technology and information exchange” across our nation’s space enterprise to ensure that the United States remains the world’s foremost spacefaring country.”
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Is anyone keeping track of what the accomplishments or failures of this forum are? How productive are they? How are they showing their worth to the space program? How are they proving actual benefit to the space program? Only time and close tracking of all the details will show this (something seemingly rarely done in government programs). I sure hope someone is doing this in a new way and with frequently published results showing progress or lack there of because Ive seen nothing yet proving any worth (7 meetings). Otherwise, we might not have a space program in less than a couple decades (pessimistic prognostication using about 10 variables).
That’s not what I am seeing since each meeting of the space council on different subjects policy has actually happening , we have seen a shift back to proper exploration with Artimis , and have seen regulations to help commercial space and finally the US now has a Space Force . with out a space council US space policy was a drift for almost 30 years that’s not the case now.
But to be valid the study would have to compare it to previous space councils and the periods when there were no space councils. Since all the data needed is in the public anyone could do it. But when doing it remember that space is more than merely NASA.