Pace Outlines Trump Administration’s Approach to Space Development and Law, Space Policy Online “The United States should seek to ensure that its space activities reflect “our values and not just our technologies,” Pace urged. “We should seek to ensure that our space activities reflect those values: democracy, liberty, free enterprise, and respect for domestic and international law in a peaceful international order.” To influence the development and utilization of space, […]
Keith’s note: Take a close look at the upper left hand portion of this image taken at NASA KSC today of Vice President Pence and his entourage. There is one person who (from a distance) sure looks a lot like Scott Pace. Pace is widely expected to be named as executive secretary of the newly re-chartered National Space Council – and Pence made frequent mention of the Council in his […]
Keith’s note: Sources continue to report that Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) is still the Administration’s preferred choice to become NASA Administrator and that they expect to nominate him in the coming weeks. Former Rep. Bob Walker stated several weeks ago in a public event that the executive order creating (reinstating) the National Space Council has been drafted and that it is awaiting signature. The only thing holding that executive order […]
Opinion: How Trump Should Restart U.S. Space Momentum, Scott Pace, Aviation Week “And the Obama administration continued to push away partners, telling Europe to go to the Russians for its next robotic science mission. Plans for human missions to Martian orbit and a distant asteroid failed to find international partners. Mars in the 2030s is not a practical basis for managing a global space enterprise, and our partners are making […]
Hearing: Mars Flyby 2021: The First Deep Space Mission for the Orion and Space Launch System? 27 Feb 2014 10:00am live webcast – Dr. Scott Pace, Director of the Space Policy Institute, George Washington University Statement – General Lester Lyles (ret.), Independent Aerospace Consultant and former Chairman of the Committee on “Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program” established by the National Academies Statement – Mr. Doug Cooke, […]
Keith’s note: Lori Garver, Scott Pace, Mike Gold, and Joel Achenbach were guests on Diane Rhem Show (radio) today at 11:00 am EST Lori Garver said that she favored cancellation of SLS and Mars 2020 rover. Scott Pace spoke enthusiastically about SpaceX launching commercial satellites and bringing that service back to America. Mike Gold tried to explain Bob Bigelow’s recent statements about private propery ownership of things on the Moon. […]
Senator: NASA to Lasso Asteorid, Bring it Closer, AP “George Washington University Space Policy Institute Director Scott Pace, a top NASA official during the George W. Bush administration, was critical of the plan, saying it was a bad idea scientifically and for international cooperation. Instead, NASA and other countries should first join forces for a comprehensive survey of all possible dangerous space rocks, Pace said.” Russia may join asteroid retrieval […]
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule docks with international space station, Washington post “On Friday, Musk said that SpaceX could be ready to fly people into space by 2015. But Scott Pace, a space policy expert at George Washington University and an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said the company first needs a track record. “They need to fly [cargo] six or seven times consecutively,” he said.” Keith’s note: More Griffin […]
Lighting a rocket is easy; tough part is controlling it, making parts work together, AP “Anybody can make something go boom. Controlling it is hard,” said former NASA associate administrator Scott Pace, director of space policy at George Washington University. … “In many ways, the worst enemy of NASA is `Star Trek’,” Pace said. “Captain Picard says `engage’ and the ship moves. And people think `How hard can this be?’” […]
Is the answer to heavy-lift rocket cost issue bringing back Ares I?, Huntsville Times “As NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket struggles to get off the drawing board, a national space analyst says the answer to moving into deep space may be bringing back Ares I, the rocket NASA just canceled. Dr. Scott Pace, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, raised the Ares option last week as one […]
