28 October 2015
Catalina Sky Survey spots object WT1190F – set to return to Earth on November 13
... space debris has yet to be tackled in an effective manner – there is usually room to pass the buck, as there is no binding legislation in place that would force all space players to track space debris/mitigate the problems it poses. And...
05 November 2015
Colonizing Mars – the legal way
... issue must begin on an international level. “The current state of affairs is too ambiguous,” they caution. In general space legislation has had a hard time catching up to progress in recent decades. ROOM authors have already argued for a new...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
... ability to buy supplies, propellant and materials on location when we get there. Notice, while some are enabled by legislation and contracts, not one of these advances is coming from the government space program itself. Not one...
10 February 2017
UK pledges cash for commercial launch capabilities
... £25 billion over the next 20 years. The funding comes as the UK government released the timeline for new legislation which will promote and regulate commercial spaceflight. To help facilitate the government’s ambitions for the UK to hold...
16 January 2018
MP highlights ROOM article during Parliamentary debate
... operators in the UK. Its second reading in the House of Commons on 15 January 2018 paves the way for secondary legislation over the coming months which will contain the real detail for spaceport operators and launch...
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
... the final version of the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) yesterday. Now that the last legislative hurdle has been passed, all that remains is for President Trump to sign the bill into law...
