I’m looking forward to participating in The Law and Economics of Space Policy, a seminar conducted this weekend by the…
An agency’s notice of proposed rulemaking (an NPRM) does not get written overnight. An agency must identify a problem, come…
I was going to title this “Does Planetary Protection Apply to the Private Sector?” However, various corners of the internet…
I received a question from someone interested in what literature might be available for understanding the FAA’s risk criteria for…
I submitted the following comments to the FAA on Monday, September 12, 2016. The FAA wanted to know whether the…
Spaceports are contractors. Not all spaceports are always contractors in all respects, but a lot of them are a lot…
Sometimes when you are reading science fiction you find that the story’s future is in our past. What could have…
I received a question in response to Monday’s post that raised foundational issues: why are there are two regimes to…
I’ve worked on a lot of regulations, and it seems sometimes that the only thing people hate more than vague…
In 2015, Congress passed the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, which charged the Comptroller General, who heads up the Government…