The Virginia House of Delegates is expected to take-up House Resolution No. 21 next week commending the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) for fostering greater development of commercial space launch services and particularly supporting fiscal policies that serve to enable the Virginia spaceport to maximize its commercial space launch potential. The resolution is being offered by State Delegate Terry G. Kilgore (R-Scott County). The measure offered in the state legislature comes immediately after the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority passed an almost identical resolution February 23, 2010 at a meeting in Richmond and after Dulles, VA.-based Orbital Sciences Corporation issued a statement supportive of the new federal civil space policy.
Kilgore, the original patron of the Virginia Space Flight Liability and Immunity Act, is also on the verge of removing the July 1, 2013 sunset clause passed by the Virginia legislature and on Governor Robert F. McDonnell's desk next week. An identical bill is offered by State Senator Ralph Northam (D-Norfolk). No human-rated space flights have yet to be mounted from Virginia.
Northam is also expected to offer a Virginia Senate commending resolution of NASA FY 2011 federal budget next week.
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