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Solyndra In Space?

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 08/27/2012

Here we go again. It's unfortunate that so many conservatives are opposed to competitive markets in spaceflight, to the point that they are willing to…

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Capitalism In Space

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 08/10/2012

Over at National Review Online today, I have a piece on the current state of play in U.S. human spaceflight. It’s…

Regulatory Reform

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The Other Scandal In Unhappy Valley

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 07/13/2012

So it turns out that Penn State has covered up wrongdoing by one of its employees to avoid bad publicity. But I'm not talking about…

Energy and Environment

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Losing the Universe with LOST

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 06/15/2012

The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) has been languishing in the Senate for decades, but led by Massachusetts senator John Kerry, there is growing…

Property Rights

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Tapping Space Resources

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 06/07/2012

Over at The Washington Times, Bob Zubrin says that we need space property rights. Gee, I wonder…

Property Rights

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Cut The Budget By Cutting Republican Sacred Space Cows

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 06/05/2012

Over at Forbes, Cato’s Doug Bandow says that the Republicans need to lead by example: Presumptive Republican Party nominee Mitt Romney…

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New Space Property Rights Criticism

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 06/01/2012

Over at the Space and Cyberlaw blog, Eric Dawson takes issue with my issue analysis on space…

Property Rights

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A Fit of Sanity on ITAR

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 05/18/2012

Over at Space Politics, Jeff Foust reports that the House has passed a bill allowing the administration to remove satellites from…

Regulatory Reform

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The Constellation Empire Strikes Back

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 05/14/2012

Constellation, the Bush administration's plan to return to the moon, was canceled a couple years ago. But not all of Constellation was canceled. The Orion…

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Republican Space Socialism Update

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 05/09/2012

Last time we checked in on this topic, House Appropriations Chairman Frank Wolf (R-Virginia) was decrying the wastefulness of competition. Well,…

Regulatory Reform

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The Remote Sensing Problem

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 05/07/2012

Over at the Washington Post, in discussing the coming crisis in weathersats, the editorial board can't resist taking an ignorant dig…

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When Commodities Analysts Should Stick To Commodities

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 05/01/2012

Some analysts at Barclays attempt to understand the business case for Planetary Resources, and massively fail: Their…

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A Bad Week For Shuttlyndra Supporters

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 04/24/2012

Two serious blows were struck against the Senate Launch System this week, though based on previous behavior, when knocked down by…

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The Space Property Rights Discussion Continues

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 04/16/2012

As I (sort of) predicted last week, Tanja Masson-Zwaan, president of the International Institute of Space Law, has weighed in on…

Property Rights

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One Small Step for Human Spaceflight

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 04/11/2012

The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) have been a thorn in the American space industry’s side for almost fourteen years, ever since Congress moved…

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Further Space Property Rights Responses

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 04/09/2012

Since my previous post on media reaction to CEI's press briefing on Thursday, Popular Science has provided a…

Lands and Wildlife

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Initial Media Reactions to CEI’s Space Property Rights Paper

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 04/06/2012

On Monday, CEI published an Issue Analysis on a possible new approach to establishing private real estate off planet under the…

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More Space Socialism From Republicans

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 03/23/2012

Over at the Beyond the Black blog, Bob Zimmerman does what I haven't had time to yet --he excoriates the chairman…

Tech and Telecom

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Good News/Bad News On Human Spaceflight Regulation

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 02/09/2012

In a bill passed last week authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration for another year, the moratorium on regulation of the safety of spaceflight participants, in…

Regulatory Reform

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Nine Years Of Space Policy Disaster

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 02/01/2012

On the ninth anniversary of the loss of the Columbia space shuttle, I have some thoughts on what’s happened since, over at PJMedia: The problem…

Tech and Telecom

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Newt’s Lunar Base

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 01/27/2012

Over at PJMedia, I discuss the technical, economic and political feasibility of what Newt proposes. But as I note there, the…

Tech and Telecom

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The Non-EU Space Code of Conduct

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 01/18/2012

For over a year, there has been concern that the White House would sign an executive order requiring U.S. space activities to adhere to the…

Regulatory Reform

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Stuck in a High-Priced Box

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 01/11/2012

The United Launch Alliance just got an Air Force launch contract for 159 launches, which I guess means that they didn’t get the 40-launch block…

Tech and Telecom

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The Lunar Yellow (Non)Peril

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 01/10/2012

Over at PJMedia today, I have a piece on the recently released white paper from the Chinese space program that lays…

Tech and Telecom

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Newt’s “Zany” Space Policy

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 12/27/2011

Over at PJMedia over the weekend, I asked some space policy questions of Mitt Romney: So, Governor, if you want to…

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A Reprieve For NASA Commercial Crew Contractors

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 12/15/2011

There has been a great deal of concern over the past few months among the potential providers of crew services to NASA over their stated…

Tech and Telecom

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Newt’s Moon Mines

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 12/12/2011

Over at National Review Online today, I have some thoughts on the little dust up between Newt and Mitt Saturday night…

Tech and Telecom

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Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish on NASA

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 11/15/2011

On Sunday, flights to the ISS resumed for the first time since the retirement of the Shuttle last summer. As I’ve…

Tech and Telecom

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Crony Capitalism and the Space Program

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 11/14/2011

Over at The Weekly Standard today, I describe how the desire of politicians to steer pork to their constituents is undermining…

Tech and Telecom

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The Heavy-Lift Empire Strikes Back

  • By: Rand Simberg
  • 11/07/2011

Readers of this space will recall that there was a leak of an internal NASA document a couple weeks ago that…

Tech and Telecom

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