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White House Releases New National Space Transportation Policy

Gally Articola

Monday, December 2nd, 2013

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The White House released a new National Space Transportation Policy, much of which is consistent with the last policy released in 2004. Goals of the policy include promoting and maintaining a healthy domestic space transportation industrial base, encouraging and facilitating the United States’ commercial space transportation industry, conducting and promoting technology research and development activities and fostering the development of U.S. commercial spaceflight capabilities serving the non-governmental human spaceflight market. The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) trade group applauded the release in a…

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