U.S. Space Policy Review Under Way

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Jul 22, 2009 - By Frank Morring, Jr. - Aviation Week

National Security Adviser James Jones is conducting a government-wide review of U.S. space policy at the request of President Barack Obama, as former Lockheed Martin CEO Norm Augustine heads into the final set of public hearings on the review he is conducting of human spaceflight options.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told Aviation Week July 21 that Jones - like Bolden a retired Marine Corps general officer - was directed to "review our present policy and decide whether it is in keeping with our vision of the 21st century and where we want to go, and try to come up with a coherent space policy into which NASA and our plans fit, and ideally they would fit perfectly.

"He has already started getting together representatives from all the space communities in the country - thats DOD, NASA, commercial space, Department of Transportation and anybody else that has space assets, and science people," Bolden said in a telephone interview.

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