04 May 2021
New NASA Administrator sworn in
... Harris to serve as NASA administrator, and I look forward to a continued, strong relationship with her as chair of the National Space Council,” Nelson said after the ceremony. “I want to thank Steve Jurczyk for his leadership as Acting Administrator...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... our attention to the next step: how to behave once we actually got to the Moon. Back in Washington, the National Space Council convened a series of interagency meetings where we worked through the draft Accords with every US Government agency that...
22 May 2020
Countdown to SpaceX’s historic Crew Dragon launch
...duration of the mission is still undetermined and only describes it as the crew’s “extended stay” at the ISS. At the National Space Council meeting, its chair, US Vice President Mike Pence, quizzed the two astronauts about their forthcoming adventure...
11 December 2020
NASA reveals Artemis Team to train for moon landings
...the Artemis Team Wednesday during the eighth National Space Council meeting at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “I give you ... The Artemis Team astronauts are the future of American space exploration – and that future is bright." The astronauts...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... set out its political position. At the 2017 Space Law Symposium in Washington DC, the Executive Secretary of the National Space Council, Dr Scott Pace, emphatically stated: “It bears repeating: outer space is not a ‘global commons’, not the ‘common...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
...launch pad, killing 21 people, many of whom were scientists and engineers on the VLS programme. Creating a National Space Council (NSC), composed of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation; Ministry of Defense; Ministry of the Economy, and...
