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...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
...that it is not a question of if but when airmen will be fighting in space. President Trump holds up a Space Policy Directive after signing it at a meeting of the National Space Council in the White House in the summer of 2018. and (left) a screenshot...
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...
