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Kings of the High Frontier vs NASA

August 21, 2017 Laura Montgomery

Could NASA use the Federal Aviation Administration’s policy review to stop a launch? One of the problems I have with…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: alternate future history, NASA, policy review, science fiction

Senate Hearing, Orbital Debris, and a Manx Prize

July 14, 2017 Laura Montgomery

I watched yesterday’s latest in the series of Senate Commerce Committee hearings on Reopening the American Frontier. There was, as…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: orbital debris, science fiction

Adverse Possession in Space

June 13, 2017 Laura Montgomery

Mackey Chandler’s short story Adverse Possession deals with a confrontation between an official ship from Earth reaching Mars and finding,…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: alternate future history, private law, science fiction

NASA Advises of Intent to Grant an Exclusive License

March 28, 2017 Laura Montgomery 2 Comments

This is interesting.  The link is to a Federal Register notice where NASA gives notice of its intent to grant…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: alternate future history, patent, science fiction

Science Fiction, Space Law, and the Regulatory State: Or, How John Varley Broke My Heart but Other Science Fiction Writers Shouldn’t Have To

November 25, 2016 Laura Montgomery 26 Comments

I read John Varley in my teens. I had a subscription to Analog, or, Galaxy, it might have been; and…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: Article VI, FAA, FCC, launch, NOAA, Outer Space Treaty, science fiction, spaceports, teach a man to fish

A Company Town and Atlantis Ascending

October 20, 2016 Laura Montgomery

A couple of years ago I read an early draft of my friend Jim Dunstan’s book Atlantis Ascending, about a…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: company town, science fiction

Codification, Re-Codification, and Alternate Future History

September 5, 2016 Laura Montgomery 1 Comment

Sometimes when you are reading science fiction you find that the story’s future is in our past.   What could have…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: alternate future history, codification, science fiction

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