President Barack Obama’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is proposing legislation that would that would provide a narrowly-tailored authorization process for newly-contemplated and pioneering commercial space activities.In an April 4 report to Congress, OSTP said this authorization process would only contain conditions necessary for compliance with the nation’s international obligations like the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, foreign policy and national security interests and protection of federal government uses of outer space. Through its “mission authorization” framework, OSTP does…
