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April 4, 2021 NASA requested congressional approval to speak with Chinese partners to obtain information on China’s fresh Mars spacecraft’s orbit to reduce the threat of a crash with other Mars orbiters. Throughout a question-and-answer discussion following a March 23 speech at a conference of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee of Federal Aviation Administration, NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk disclosed the agency’s uncommon, but not unexpected, discussions with China, when a member of the committee questioned him about what overview the agency had into Chinese space activities. Due to various federal law limitations on NASA’s encounters with Chinese organizations,...
