[AR] Re: New administration, good luck to them !

  • From: Henry Vanderbilt <hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 11:32:55 -0700

For at least a beginning view of what a Trump Administration civil space policy might look like, see Jeff Foust's piece at http://spacenews.com/what-a-trump-administration-means-for-space/

The policies stated are a bit generic, but do point out a good general direction. Read it with my recent post's mention of political realities in mind, and the shape of what might actually practically be accomplished starts to emerge.

General advice I've given before: Space cuts diagonally across a lot of the usual US political divisions. Trying to tie space issues to one side or the other of those divisions is generally both factually incorrect and also bad tactics. (To anyone tempted by the passions of the moment to do so regardless, one simple question: Which matters more in the long run?)

Henry

On 11/9/2016 10:28 AM, Rand Simberg wrote:

Bob Walker is Trump's space adviser. If he listens to him, we'll get
some very interesting and innovative space policy.

On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 10:22 -0700, Robert Steinke wrote:
On 11/9/2016 6:38 AM, John Dom wrote:
Now that so many are eating their hearts out this election day: first
impressions regarding coming space policy:

John




My impression is that Donald Trump doesn't really care a whit about
space so NASA policy will continue to be run by the "strong
congressional regional coalitions" and "mature federal bureaucracy".
There won't be any space policy outside NASA policy.  I don't expect
to see any focus on space property rights, debris mitigation, or other
potential non-NASA space issues.  I do expect with general Republican
strength any research that has anything to do with global warming will
be cut.  Otherwise the program of record will continue.

Henry, Is there any political coalition actually pushing for your hint
about changing from heavy lift to deep-space power and propulsion
without changing the current geographic distribution of funding?  How
do you see it getting implemented?


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