Nield at ISPCS
George Nield, former FAA associate administrator for commercial space transportation, said a national spaceport policy could help turn spaceports into hubs for research, business and education.

The former head of the Federal Aviation Administration’s commercial space office says the government should create a policy that promotes the development of spaceports as not just launch sites but also as hubs for economic development.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...