Public/private partnerships are essential – Bob Walker #ulcats pic.twitter.com/uksz6U1zDf — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 1, 2017 Walker: the National Space Council will happen and VP Pence is excited about chairing it #ulcats #nasa — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 1, 2017 Walker says executive order for National space Council is already written and they want to announce exec secty at same time #ulcats #nasa — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 1, 2017 […]

Trump advisers’ space plan: To moon, Mars and beyond, Politco “Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, another commercial space evangelist with close ties to Trump, is also pushing the White House to embark on a major effort to privatize U.S. space efforts. “A good part of the Trump administration would like a lot more aggressive, risk-taking, competitive entrepreneurial approach to space,” Gingrich said in an interview. “A smaller but still powerful […]

Some additional insight into the Trump Administration’s space policy was revealed today in Washington DC. Meeting at the Cosmos Club, attendees at the 11th Eilene M. Galloway Symposium on Critical Issues in Space Law heard from a number of speakers including former Congressman Bob Walker, who is advising the Trump Transition Team, and Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) who has been conducting a behind-the-scenes effort to become the next administrator of […]

Bob Walker and @RepJBridenstine talking during coffee break at Space Law Symposium about @nasa pic.twitter.com/C3UxHjxcdU — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 7, 2016 I tried but Bridenstine refused to ask questions such as "@RepJBridenstine are you still trying to become the next administrator of @NASA ?" — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 7, 2016 Walker I am not interested in becoming NASAa administrator — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 7, 2016 Trump considering […]

Keith’s note: The Trump campaign was mostly caught by surprise by their win. While there was a formal Trump Transition Team operating, it had not gotten to the point of working details of who would visit each agency and what they would do once they arrived. If you check this chart you will see that NASA is currently not a priority for the Trump “Agency Action Team” structure. NASA is […]

Gingrich plans major speeches, including one on space, CNN “Riding the momentum of his South Carolina win on Saturday, Newt Gingrich said Sunday he planned a week of big speeches offering “big solutions for a big country.” “I’ll be at the space coast in Florida this week giving a speech — a visionary speech — on the United States going back into space in the John F. Kennedy tradition,” the […]

Soyuz Landing Caps Space Station’s First Decade of Expeditions “Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock and Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft on the Kazakhstan steppe Thursday, wrapping up a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station. Russian cosmonaut Yurchikhin, the Soyuz commander, was at the controls of the spacecraft as it undocked at 8:23 p.m. EST from the station’s Rassvet module. The trio landed […]

SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION PROMOTION ACT OF 1996 (House of Representatives – September 17, 1996) (i) a certification that the use of such missile– (I) would result in significant cost savings to the Federal Government when compared to the cost of acquiring space transportation services from United States commercial providers; and (II) meets all mission requirements of the agency, including performance, schedule, and risk requirements; and (ii) comments obtained from United States […]