[FPSPACE] Jim Oberg's article in /Launchspace/

[Dwayne Allen Day]

[there seems to be an occasional one or two-day delay in things reaching
FPSpace--odd]


On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Robert G Kennedy III wrote:
> We had a hearing about this. What the satellite companies really wanted in
> 1994 was no launch quotas at all, and the ability to catch a ride on cheap
> command-economy rockets. (Logic being, if the vending command economy chose
> to lose money on the launch, that wasn't the customer's problem.) They
> didn't get want they wanted. However, like the old Rolling Stones song

It will be interesting to see what happens to the launch quota issue
regarding both Russia and China now that we have a Republican president
and a (mostly) Republican Congress.  Will Bush reverse these recent
decisions and once again impose quotas on Russia and tighten up on the
export controls to China?

In addition, there are also other external (i.e. non-space) issues to
think about.  For instance, will the Pope spying conviction affect
US-Russian relations?



DDAY