NASA is looking at how it can further commercialize its activities. To that end, in August of 2018 it created the Regulatory and Policy Issues Committee as part of its Advisory Council.

My guest this week for the SpaceQ podcast is Mike Gold, Vice President, Regulatory and Policy at Maxar Technologies. For this podcast we’re going to talk to Mike about his other role. That of Chair of NASA’s Advisory Council Regulatory and Policy Issues Committee.

Mike is one of 15 members, mostly from industry, that meet several times a year including with NASA’s other Advisory Council committees.

The members include;

Mike Gold (Chair), Maxar Technologies
Jennifer Warren, Lockheed Martin
Caryn Schenewerk, SpaceX
Sirisha Bandla, Virgin Galactic / Orbit
Thomas Culligan, Boeing
Audrey Powers, Blue Origin
Jim Armor, Northrup Grumman
Jeffrey Manber, NanoRacks
Mark Mozena, United Launch Alliance
Meghan Allen, Sierra Nevada Corporation
Sagi Kfir, Deep Space Industries
John Logsdon, Historian, GW Univeristy
Mark Sundahl, Cleveland State University Law School
Josef Koller, Aerospace Corporation

In its first meeting last November the committee published its first observations, findings, and recommendations. The committee tackled a board range of ideas from export controls, intellectual property, supporting space-based commercial development, private sector habitats, logos, advertising, astronaut endorsements and space research. The committee report is available below.

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