Determine: Who are the key actors from the private sector (i.e. Elon Musk-Space

Determine: Who are the key actors from the private sector (i.e. Elon Musk-Space X; Sir Richard Branson-Virgin Galactic; Jeff Bezos-Blue Origin, etc.) who are involved with space activities? Share links to their websites, Youtube videos and the like, here in this Discussion.
Go to the web site of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation – Subcommittee on Science and Space. Enjoy spending time investigating, hearings on issues related to outer space at Commerce SenateLinks to an external site.. Next, go to the web site (http://commerce.senate.gov/public/) of the US House of Representatives, Committee on Science and Technology – Subcommittee on Space & Aeronautics (https://science.house.gov/subcommittee/space.aspx). Research hearings on space issues. Make analytical links between private sector space activities and U.S. policy, law and politics, as you research and study these phenomena.
Understand the political (lobbying, policy etc.) connected to creation of space law in the US – the politics of space law. In addition, after reading Learning Module 6 and the readings for this week, form an understanding about who are some of the new actors participating in developing private spaceships, space tourism, spaceports and space tourism? Was political activism responsible for US “Asteroid Mining Act” formally names H.R. 1508 (114th): Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act of 2015: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr1508/text. Discuss, also what this law is intended to do, cause and/or effect.
After reviewing Chapter 5 of our textbook: Why are US laws so powerful, internationally? Do you think this will change? ***see attached document for textbook***

Step 2
Apply this Discussion to real life before the international community. Go to https://www.herox.com/blog/381-us-house-of-representatives-passes-asteroid-mining and to http://www.e-ir.info/?p=4545. review the article and post insights from your Discussion post here, to those real-life blog discussions.
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