Ed Markey
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the new chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee's space subcommittee, has not been active on space issues but is outspoken on climate and the environment.

Democratic members of the Senate Commerce Committee have named Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) as the ranking member of the subcommittee with oversight of space issues.

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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...