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    Twilight for Trump space policy by Jeff Foust Monday, December 21, 2020 On December 9, the National Space Council met for the eighth and last time in the Trump Administration at the Kennedy Space Center. The event, held in the Apollo/Saturn V Center there, with that rocket above attendees’ heads, was something of a season finale for the council. Cabinet secretaries and other officials spent about an hour recounting the work they had done in space policy in the last four years, from the establishment of the Space Force to commercial space regulatory reforms. “Allow me to express my a...

Biden space advisers urge cooperation with China POLITICO 12/20/2020 By Jacqueline Feldscher © Jiang Hongjing/Xinhua via AP The Chang'e 4 lunar probe launches from the the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Dec. 8, 2018. Top advisers to Joe Biden have argued that it's important to cooperate with China on space exploration, even as the incoming administration treats Beijing as its top economic and military competitor in virtually every other realm. They assert that despite China's pattern of stealing American technology and diverting i...

By   Theresa Hitchens on December 09, 2020 at 7:09 PM First meeting of the reborn National Space Council, Oct. 5, 2017 WASHINGTON: Outgoing President Donald Trump has issued a new National Space Policy that, in essence, seeks to put an official stamp on the administration’s previous decisions, from asserting that space is a warfighting domain to pledging a permanent US presence on the Moon to supporting industry efforts to mine celestial bodies. The big question is: does it matter? “I just think it’s a little too late for trying to put a stamp on something. It is just trying to say t...