The Space Review: Obama and Mr. Spock Edition

The Space Review examines President Barack Obama’s speech at KSC last week, where NASA’s human spaceflight program is heading, and what Mr. Spock thinks of the space agency’s plans. Meanwhile, Dwayne Day continues his look at an old Air Force space plane project.

• Jeff Foust summarizes Obama’s speech and the reaction to it, and the the prospects for change at the space agency.
• G. Ryan Faith analyzes crew and transportation elements of President Obama’s recently unveiled space exploration policy.
• Alan Stern argues that it’s time to break NASA’s long pattern of having a single, monolithic human space flight program.
• Jeff Foust reports on what Leonard Nimoy believes was the role NASA played in preserving the show, as well as his views about the agency’s new plans.
• Dwayne Day continues his look at a little-known Air Force space plane project.