In this episode we'll be talking to Laura Montgomery from Ground Based Space Matters. Laura teaches space law at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law and her practice specializes in regulatory space law, with an emphasis on commercial space transportation and the Outer Space Treaties. She is the former manager of the space law branch of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration or FAA, her expertise encompasses the regulation of human space flight, spaceports, and launch and reentry.  She writes and edits the space law blog GroundBasedSpaceMatters.com. She also writes science fiction.