"Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell has been consistent in his vision to make Virginia's commercial spaceport the best in the nation most notably with his recent budget amendment to increase the operations budget for the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority; he is to be commended," says a Guest Columnist Jack Kennedy in The Richmond Times Dispatch today.The 2010 Virginia General Assembly reconvenes today in the Virginia capitol city to consider a $700,000 boost to the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority above what the legislators agreed to last month.
"The policies adopted in the next year may well determine the next fifty years of space commerce, space exploration, and space development. There is no more fitting place to wage the space policy debate than from Virginia - where the first American astronauts of yesteryear trained for the first human spaceflights, and where New World Virginia can now be in direct contact with the New Frontier of commercial spaceflight," the published commentary notes.
"The policies adopted in the next year may well determine the next fifty years of space commerce, space exploration, and space development. There is no more fitting place to wage the space policy debate than from Virginia - where the first American astronauts of yesteryear trained for the first human spaceflights, and where New World Virginia can now be in direct contact with the New Frontier of commercial spaceflight," the published commentary notes.
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