Launch America

On Saturday, May 30, NASA and SpaceX launched the first astronauts to space from American soil since 2011. The following is a curated list of documents on NASA's Commercial Crew Program which started in 2010 to involve the private sector in crew transportation. (Source: NASA )

Demo-2 crew members Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, by NASA/Kim Shiflett (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) Sidebar photo credit:  SpaceX Crew Dragon by SpaceX (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 )

Congressional Hearings

• July 25, 2019 – The Commercial Space Landscape: Innovation, Market and Policy
• March 13, 2019 – America in Space: Future Visions, Current Issues
• September 26, 2018 – Sixty Years of NASA Leadership in Human Space Exploration: Past, Present, and Future
• January 17, 2018 – An Update on NASA Commercial Crew Systems Development
• July 13, 2017 – Reopening the American Frontier: Promoting Partnerships between Commercial Space and the U.S. Government to Advance Exploration and Settlement
• July 13, 2016 – NASA at a Crossroads: Reasserting American Leadership in Space Exploration
• Feb 24, 2015 – U.S. Human Exploration Goals and Commercial Space Competitiveness

Budget and Appropriations for NASA

• Budget of the U.S. Government FY 2021 for NASA
• Search past Budgets of the U.S. Government for NASA
• NASA appropriations for FY2020
• Search NASA appropriations back to 1995

Other Resources

• Search govinfo documents for NASA's Commercial Crew Program
• Compilation of Space Law (Congressional Committee Print 116-9, October 2019)
  • Part 1: Federal Space Law (Title 51 and Title 42, Chapter 159 of the U.S. Code)
  • Part 2: International Space Law 
• Search or Browse Title 51 of the U.S. Code: National and Commercial Space Programs 
• 50th Anniversary of the Man on the Moon, July 16, 2019
• Insight Launching to Mars, May 1, 2018
• 55th Anniversary of John Glenn's "Friendship 7" Flight, February 20, 2017