Congress Wants To Enhance A Policy That NASA.gov Can't Show You
Keith’s update: Based on some people inside the NASA firewall this link on the NASA OIIR useful links page to the International Space Station Crew Code of Conduct works. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2000_register&docid=00-32381-filed. However, this what you get as a taxpayer, journalist, researcher, member of Congress etc. if you are outside the firewall and you click on this link.
Same result whether it is Safari, Chrome, or Firefox. Apparently NASA PAO and the NASA CIO do not understand that firewalls limit access. Why put links to a website that only work inside the NASA firewall on a public facing site so that the public cannot use them? Doesn’t NASA have a contractor whose job it is to check out NASA’s websites? Meanwhile the people running the OIIR “helpful links” page still cannot seem to find any links at all for “Executive Order for the National Space Council”, “White House Fact Sheet on the National Space Strategy”, or “International Space Station Bilateral Agreements”,
Draft House FY2022 NDAA Calls for International Norms of Behavior in Space, Space Policy Online
“The House Armed Services Committee will mark up its version of the FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act tomorrow in what is expected to be a marathon session that may extend beyond midnight. Among the bill’s provisions is direction to the National Space Council to coordinate U.S. government efforts to prioritize objectives for developing norms of behavior for space and to the Secretary of State to use them in international negotiations.”
Keith’s note: Alas, if you are a policy maker wanting to learn more about this topic, or a reporter trying to write an article, or just a citizen wanting to learn more and see what the current ISS rules of behavior are, the natural place to go is the NASA Office of International and Interagency Relations (OIIR). Their “helpful inks” page (which is still full of broken and missing links) is the place where the information is supposed to be, But if you click on International Space Station Crew Code of Conduct. If you do then you get “This site can’t be reached”. But if you happen to know that there is a thing called Google, and look for that document under that same name, you can go to 14 CFR § 1214.403 – Code of Conduct for the International Space Station Crew at Cornel Law School.
It is just plain baffling that NASA OIIR and PAO allow a page that is supposed to be the place where international relationships are explained sit in a public facing location – broken. I laid out these errors and offered corrections 2 months ago but NASA doesn’t seem to take public input – so things stay broke.
– NASA Tries To Fix A Webpage By Breaking It
– NASA’s Websites Need Some Attention, earlier post
– NASA Is Still Sleepwalking When It Comes to Policy Transparency, earlier post
– NASA’s International and Interagency Relations Team Doesn’t Bother To Update, earlier post
NASA is not forced to fix it, it will likely stay broken forevere. Maybe you should contact the history office as it started with CLINTON via the SHUTTLE/MIR program. As NONUSA people get into space who knows what will happen.
I’m not sure what you mean by “NONUSA” people getting into space. You do realize that ISS stands for International space station, that only three of the seven people on board are Americans, and that the current commander is French, don’t you?
Just me or does that link work?
https://www.wikihow.com/Fix…
> https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bi…
Interesting site, condensed to show there are only 50 Titles, then headers within each Title. A lot of material but organized by showing headers prior to sections of detail.
That is simply not true. Russian kosmonauts on ISS are not under the jurisdiction of NASA mission control. Nor are the spacecraft Roskosmos docks with ISS. Look at the recent Nauka incident. That module was docked with ISS under complete Russian control (or lack thereof…) A few hours after docking, a command error at the Russian mission control center caused Nauka to start firing rockets, and that resulted in the first emergency every declared on ISS. NASA was not in the loop on any of this, other than to have the authority (shared with Russian mission control) to declare an emergency. So, your claim that “anyone who attaches to ISS is under the authority is NASA mission control” is an incorrect and false statement. (And, just as a bit of advice, statements of this sort poison your credibility when you make other statements, e.g. about autopilots on SpaceShipTwo or SLS being years ahead of Starship.)
There are a lot of things about the Nauka incident which Roscosmos isn’t talking about. But one thing has been widely reported, including direct statements from NASA officials. Once it started firing its rockets, they couldn’t turn them off. Because only the Russians could command that, and the Russians can only communicate with ISS when it’s over Russia. That makes it pretty obvious that the statement “anyone who attaches to ISS is under the authority is NASA mission control” is incorrect.
If you think you can do as you please while sailing in international waters, you have some very mistaken ideas about maritime law. In any case, this discussion started when you wrote, “As NONUSA people get into space who knows what will happen.” As if they weren’t there already.