Senate Hearing on Tap: Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act

Reopening the American Frontier: Reducing Regulatory Barriers and Expanding American Free Enterprise in Space (Live at 10:00 a.m. EDT)
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, will convene a hearing titled “Reopening the American Frontier: Reducing Regulatory Barriers and Expanding American Free Enterprise in Space” at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 26, 2017. This hearing will examine the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act signed into law in November 2015, potential regulatory barriers to address in future legislation, and ways to expand commercial opportunities for American firms in space.
Witnesses:
– Mr. Robert Bigelow, Founder, Bigelow Aerospace
– Mr. Rob Meyerson, President, Blue Origin
– Mr. George Whitesides, CEO, Galactic Ventures
– Mr. Andrew Rush, CEO, Made in Space
Marc’s note: Phil Larson, formerly with SpaceX, now Assistant Dean, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, Boulder wrote the following opinion yesterday afternoon in The Hill related to today’s hearing; There’s a new frontier in space exploration, but will Trump be on board?
“There’s a jump ball underway in space, and it’ll be on full display Wednesday at a Senate hearing chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Will the administration and Congress be pro-innovation or pro the old way of doing business? And will the team in the White House really look for opportunities to run government more like a business? There’s no better bellwether for answering these questions than the space debate going on right now. ”