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“The Elliott School’s Scott Pace now leads President Trump’s revived National Space Council, which has its eye on the moon.”

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Two of our students have been appointed to positions with the Space Generation Advisory Council. Chris Beauregard will manage the SGx Conference in March, and Cody Knipfer is the new Strategic Communications Lead.

Our Director, Henry Hertzfeld, was recently featured in the DC Bar magazine Washington Lawyer for an article examining the 50th Anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty.

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Jack D. Fischer (Colonel, U.S. Air Force) was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in July 2009, and completed his training in 2011. The Colorado native served as a Flight Engineer aboard the International Space Station of the Expedition 51/52. He returned to Earth Sept. 2 from his first mission where he logged 136 days in space and conducted two spacewalks. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Astronautical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy, and a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Colonel Fischer is an Air Force Command pilot with more than 3,000 flight hours in more than 45 types of aircraft.

At this unique event, Colonel Fischer discussed what life was like living and working aboard the International Space Station including the research investigations he conducted in microgravity, the importance of international collaboration in space, and how space policy has evolved in his tenure as a NASA astronaut. Colonel Fischer also participated in a Q&A moderated by Space Policy Institute research professor, Dr. Henry R. Herztfeld.

The National Space Council held its first meeting last Thursday at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, in front of Space Shuttle Discovery. The Space Policy Institute sent a delegation of students to watch members of the President’s Cabinet discuss the future of U.S. Space exploration with leaders from the private industry, government, as well as scientists.

Dr. Hertzfeld commented in a Forbes piece on space law titled, “Space Law Needs to Balance ‘Competing Interests’; Experts Weigh In.”

Dr. Hertzfeld commented on a recent Moon Express announcement in a New Scientist piece titled, “Robotic landers could start mining the moon as early as 2020.”

Dr. Logsdon was quoted in the CNBC article titled, “How Colorado is trying to cash in on the multibillion-dollar space race.”

Dr. Logsdon was quoted in the Daily Mail article titled, “Trump offers bold space goals, but fills in few details.”