Space Policy discussion of "low hanging fruit" that needs doing

05/01/05 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

*Update: * I have turned this list into a wiki page: SpacePolicyActionItems

The last session of the conference was a policy discussion around what we, the industry, could do next after our success with the regulatory issues last year. This is the rough list:

Jim Muncy - Since parts of aeronautics at NASA are “shutting down”, could we

task those employees with something thus turning into something like NACA.

George Whitesides - Pricing?

Henry Vanderbilt - 1) an adhoc unit to stop bad things when they come up

2) as far as the one thing to do that we all agree on, we should pick

something with a high degree of success so we have to successes instead

of overreaching on our 2nd attempt.

Rand - ITAR, procurement reform, propellant to orbit, educating NASA about

affordability and sustainability

Kevin Green - Kill cost plus

Michael Mealling - organize communications, use new media between ourselves

and to the rest of the world.

room:

space property rights

raising money for politicians we like

ammend NASA's charter

Jeff Greason - trade assocation. none worthwhile. Needs a leader, needs

to be able to get rid of members who misbehave, uses consensus.

Stay involved with the NPRM process

Association needs industry to be ready for it

Modest stimuli - prize leveraged

drafting NASA experts who are underemployed

mandate NASA program for making aero facilities cheaper to industry, vouchers?

NSF model? turn them over to the NSF.