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...
18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
... cannot do it, it is NASA, not the mission, that must change,” warned Vice President Pence as he spoke at the National Space Council meeting in Huntsville in March 2019. NASA “is up to the task. We are ready to meet it,” Bridenstine replied. Despite...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... (left) and engineer David Tovani. The Moon With the US recommitting to the Moon in the re-launch of the US National Space Council, and the emergence of private companies, such as Moon Express and Astrobotic, coupled with plans announced by China...
April 2018
Developing Mars
...in part, to ‘maintain America’s economic competitiveness’. Vice President Pence’s National Space Council (NSC) reviews “long-range goals” and develops “a strategy for national space activities”. Arguably this article’s proposals fall within the scope...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... finest thinkers Scott Pace of the US National Space Council thinks that a permanent human presence in space will require a high degree of self-sufficiency. “Space enthusiasts often assume that space settlement is a matter of manifest destiny,” Pace...
November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
... policy instruments. Of course, this is all contingent on funding. President Donald Trump, watched by representatives of Congress and the US National Space Council with Apollo astronaut Jack Schmitt and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, signing...
