#Moses Dickson

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Pictured here is Moses Dickson, from the frontispiece illustration of the 1879 book A Manual of the Knights of Tabor and Daughters of the Tabernacle. In 1872, the Rev. Moses Dickson founded the International Order of Twelve of Knights and Daughters of Tabor, an African-American fraternal order focused on benevolence and financial programs. Dickson was born a free man in Cincinnati in 1824, was a Union soldier during the Civil War, and afterwards became a prominent clergyman in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Dickson showed an interest in progressive fraternal organizations early on – in 1846 Dickson, with others, founded a society known as the Knights of Liberty, whose objective was to overthrow slavery; the group did not get beyond the organizing stages. Dickson was also involved in Freemasonry – he was the second Grand Master of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Missouri.

Dickson’s International Order of Twelve of Knights and Daughters of Tabor – or Order of Twelve, as it’s more commonly know – accepted men and women on equal terms. Men and women met together in higher level groups and in the governance of the organization, although at the local level they met separately – the men in “temples” and the women in “tabernacles” (akin to “lodges” in Freemasonry). The Order of Twelve was most prominent in the South and the lower Midwest. The major benefits to members – similar to many fraternal orders of the time – was a burial policy and weekly cash payments for the sick.

What many people today remember about the Order of Twelve is an institution founded in Mound Bayou, Misssissippi in 1942 – the Taborian Hospital. Michael Premo, a Story Corps facilitator, posted his appreciation for the impact that the Taborian Hospital had on the lives of African-Americans living in the Mississippi Delta from the 1940s-1960s. The Taborian Hospital was on the Mississippi Heritage Trust’s 10 Most Endangered List of 2000, and an update to that list indicates that the hospital still stands vacant and seeks funding for renovation. Here are some photos of the Taborian Hospital today.

Want to learn more about the Order of Twelve? Here are a few primary and secondary sources that we have here in our collection (with primary sources listed first):

Dickson, Moses. A Manual of the Knights of Tabor and Daughters of the Tabernacle, including the Ceremonies of the Order, Constitutions, Installations, Dedications, and Funerals, with Forms, and the Taborian Drill and Tactics. St. Louis, Mo. : G. I. Jones [printer], 1879. Call number: RARE HS 2259 .T3 D5 1879

—-. Ritual of Taborian Knighthood, including : the Uniform Rank. St. Louis, Mo. : A. R. Fleming & Co., printers, 1889. Call number: RARE HS 2230 .T3 D5 1889

Beito, David. From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social services, 1890-1967. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Call number: 44 .B423 2000

Skocpol, Theda, Ariane Liazos, Marshall Ganz. What a Mighty Power We Can Be : African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006. Call number: 90 .S616 2006 (1)

(1)  From The National Heritage Museum -   http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2008/05/moses-dickson-a.html

SOME ADDITIONAL INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT MOSES DICKSON

Moses Dickson, prior to the Civil War was a traveling barber.  Later he became an AME minister and was known as Father Dickson.

He was one of the Founders of the Lincoln Institute, now Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Misouri.

In 1879 along with others such as James Milton Turner, John Wheeler and John Turner he helped create the Committee of Twenty Five, organized to set up temporary housing for the more than 10,000 travelers who passed through St. Louis each year.

He was President of the Refugee Relief Board in St. Louis which helped to shelter and feed 16,000 former slaves who relocated to Kansas.

Moses Dickson was the first Grand Lecturer of the Most Worhipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Missouri upon its foundation in 1865.  He was the second Grand Master of this Grand Lodge and the Grand Secretary in 1869.

In 1876 Companion Moses dickson was elected Deputy Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Holy Royal Arch Masons of Missouri and Jurisdiction.

Moses Dickson wrote the Ritual of Heroines of Jericho penning the “Master Mason’s Daughter,” the “True Kinsman,” and “Heroines of Jericho” degrees. It was sold and distributed by the Moses Dickson Regalia and Supply Co., Kansas City, Missouri and entered into the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. in the year 1895.

The Knights of Liberty was organized by 12 Black Men in secret in August, 1846 in St. Louis, Missouri.  They were also known as the Knights of Tabor or the International Order of Twelve. Tabor is a Biblical mountain in Israel where the Israelites won a big victory over the Canaanites.

Moses Dickson was a leader of the Underground Railroad.  He and 47,000 other Knights enlisted in the Union Army as soon as Linclon authorized Black men to sign up.

Disbanded by the Civil War many of the Knights of Liberty reformed after the War was over into a benevolent fraternal society named the International Order of the Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Moses Dickson authored “International Order of Twelve 333 of Knights and Daughters of Tabor,” a book outlining the Constitution, Rules and Regulations of the Temples of the Uniform Rank of Tabor and Taborian Division.

Moses Dickson died on November 28, 1901. A truly remarkable man!

Originally published at the National Heritage Museum’s blog. The National Heritage Museum is an American history museum founded and supported by 32° Scottish Rite Freemasons in the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America.

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Minister Moses Dickson (April 5, 1824 - November 28, 1901) was born free in Cincinnati. Orphaned by the age of 13, he became a barber to support himself, finding work on steamboats moving through the South and Midwest.

He helped organize two secret abolitionist organizations with like-minded Black men he met while working on the rivers. The Knights of Liberty, founded in St. Louis in 1846, sought to organize enslaved people throughout the South, train them in military tactics, and by 1857, lead them in a massive uprising that never came to fruition. The Order of Twelve, another abolitionist organization, founded in Galena, Illinois, in 1848, included future politicians Alfred H. Richardson and Richard Harvey Cain.

He married Mary Elizabeth Butcher (1848-1891). He continued to work on steamships like the Oronoco and the Nominee and the couple moved from Galena to Saint Paul.

He was likely the first Black business owner in St. Paul, operating Nonpareil Restaurant and Dickson’s Eating Saloon, followed by barbershops in the Fuller House and Winslow House hotels. He was the first teacher of African American students.

He wrote a letter to the Minnesota Weekly Times condemning the SCOTUS’s 1857 Dred Scott Decision. Mary gave birth to their only child. He signed a required free negro bond with former St. Louis mayor John How acting as his guarantor.

After the Civil War, he co-founded Lincoln University with a group of USCT Veterans. He became an ordained minister in the AME Church and opened schools and churches in St. Louis.

He was a delegate at every Republican State Convention in Missouri between (1864-78) and he cofounded the Missouri Equal Rights League. He was an elector-at-large for President Ulysses S. Grant. He was named consul at the Port of Victoria in the Seychelles. He held a leadership role with the Refugee Relief Board that aided the Exodusters.

He was active with the Prince Hall Masons, helping found lodges throughout the Midwest. He married Ina, but the two divorced a few years later. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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HSBC SVNS Series New Zealand in Dubai|

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All Blacks Sevens: Akuila Rokolisoa, Che Clark, Codemeru Vai, Fehi Fineanganofo, Leroy Carter, Moses Leo, Ngarohi McGarvey-Black, Regan Ware, Sam Dickson, Scott Curry, Sione Molia, Tepaea Cook-Savage, Tim Mikkelson. Unavailable due to injury: Andrew Knewstubb, Lewis Ormond, Amanaki Nicole, Roderick Solo, Kitiona Vai, Dylan Collier, Joe Webber, Tone Ng Shiu.

Black Ferns Sevens: Michaela Blyde, Kelly Brazier, Jazmin Felix-Hotham, Sarah Hirini, Shiray Kaka, Jorja Miller, Manaia Nuku, Mahina Paul, Risaleeana Pouri-Lane, Alena Saili, Stacey Waaka, Tenika Willison, Portia Woodman-Wickliffe.

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3 ARRESTED OVER WITCHCRAFT ACCUSATIONS IN DOWA

3 ARRESTED OVER WITCHCRAFT ACCUSATIONS IN DOWA

Police in Dowa have arrested three people on an allegation that they accused a person of practising witchcraft. The incident happened yesterday evening in Matekenya area, Traditional Authority Msakambewa, in Dowa District. The suspects have been identified as Mickness Moses Luka (female adult), Maliko Green Chibwe, 48, and Dickson Green Chibwe, 41, all from Kachinga Village in Traditional…

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Moses Dickson founder of our order.

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On the site where Moses Dickson and others established the  Knights of Liberty and the Daughters of Tabor.

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Best Motivational Quotes to Overcome Anxiety and Depression

Moving statements and motivational quotes to overcome anxiety and depression have a stunning capacity to change the manner in which we feel about existence. This is the reason I find them so intriguing and significant on our ways to progress.

So what's their mystery?

The manner in which you contemplate yourself, including your convictions and assumptions regarding what is workable for you, decides everything that transpires.

To be successful, you have to use each day as an opportunity to grow, to find purpose in life, to be better, to get a little bit closer to your goals. It might sound like an impossible thing or a lot of work—and with a busy schedule, next to impractical. But the best part is, the more you get the results, the more you’ll want to work hard, the higher you’ll want to reach. So as long as you have the hunger for success, you will always have the power within you to achieve it.

You have full oversight over just a single thing known to mankind — your reasoning – and that is the place inspirational statements come in!

Everybody needs a little motivation now and again.

Regardless of whether you're experiencing a separation, you've recently lost your employment, or you just woke up feeling a little shaky toward the beginning of today—we've all had nowadays.

I've assembled a rundown of probably the best-overcome anxiety and depression quotes so you can begin the year by assuming responsibility for your considerations, thinking emphatically and defining new objectives.

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“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Suess

Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

“I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.” —Doug Hutchison

"I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama

“Feelings don’t try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You’re responsible for its consequences, you’re responsible for treating it. But…you’re not responsible for causing it. You’re not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor.”  ― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, “Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?” To which the man responded, “That’s your worry.”  ― Max Lucado

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Parton

“Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.” — Hillary Clinton

“Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher

“Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” — Kevin Hart

“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant

“I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James

“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ― George Clooney

“Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” — Celine Dion

“Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” — John F. Kennedy

“Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs

“My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”— Lao-Tze

“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Helen Keller

“The healthiest response to life is joy.” — Deepak Chopra

“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson

“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.” — Wordsworth

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” ― Robert Frost

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll

“Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill

“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac

“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” — Grandma Moses

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

“I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won’t leave, and fearing that it’s a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”  ― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway

“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth

“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith

“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – (Attributed to various sources)

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard

“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self.”   ― Søren Kierkegaard

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

“The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.”   ― Rick Warren, The Purpose of Christmas

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs

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The Secret Group That Planned an Insurrection Against Slavery

The African Mysteries - The Knights of Liberty were nothing to be fucked with..

Moses Dickson, a traveling barber in the years before the Civil War, had a secret– he was one of twelve members of a covert society that planned to recruit men who were “courageous, patient, temperate, and possessed of sound common sense.” Their goal? Launch a coordinated insurrection against slaveholders and claim land for black people in the South. And they almost did.

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Hero Of Our Time, photography by Dickson Moses for HUF Magazinehttp://hufmagazine.com/hero-of-our-time-photography-by-dickson-moses-for-huf-magazine/

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HSBC Dubai Sevens: the All Blacks Sevens and Black Ferns Sevens kick off their international season in Dubai

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HSBC Dubai Sevens: the All Blacks Sevens and Black Ferns Sevens kick off their international season in Dubai

The All Blacks Sevens and Black Ferns Sevens, the reigning World Series Champions, begin their international campaign in Dubai the following weekend. DUBAI HSBC SVNS 2024, which will include the top 12 men’s and 12 women’s rugby sevens teams worldwide will take place at the Emirates Dubai 7s on December 2-3.

The Emirates Dubai Sevens kicks off the new SVNS series, which will make eight total stops throughout the world.

The Black Ferns Sevens will play France, Brazil, and Canada this weekend at the Abu Dhabi 7s Festival. They traveled to Abu Dhabi to train for the competition. This weekend, the All Blacks Sevens will fly out to Dubai.

In the New Year, the contracted squads for 2024 will be revealed.

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Men’s Dubai 7s Rugby  Match 5 NEW ZEALAND VS CANADA Match 12 NEW ZEALAND VS SAMOA Match 18 NEW ZEALAND VS SOUTH AFRICA

Women’s Dubai 7s Rugby 

Match 5 NEW ZEALAND vs SOUTH AFRICA Match 12 NEW ZEALAND vs GREAT BRITAIN Match 18 EW ZEALAND vs FIJI

The All Blacks Sevens team is: Akuila Rokolisoa Che Clark Codemeru Vai Fehi Fineanganofo Leroy Carter Moses Leo Ngarohi McGarvey-Black Regan Ware Sam Dickson Scott Curry Sione Molia Tepaea Cook-Savage Tim Mikkelson

Unavailable due to injury: Andrew Knewstubb, Lewis Ormond, Amanaki Nicole, Roderick Solo, Kitiona Vai, Dylan Collier, Joe Webber, Tone Ng Shiu.

The Black Ferns Sevens team is: Michaela Blyde Kelly Brazier Jazmin Felix-Hotham Sarah Hirini Shiray Kaka Jorja Miller Manaia Nuku Mahina Paul Risaleeana Pouri-Lane Alena Saili Stacey Waaka Tenika Willison Portia Woodman-Wickliffe

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Mambila Cultural Group Raises Alarm Over Gov Darius' Alleged Plans To Resettle Fulanis On   Ancestral Lands

Mambila Cultural Group Raises Alarm Over Gov Darius’ Alleged Plans To Resettle Fulanis On   Ancestral Lands

By KATO P. LADAN, Kaduna A group under the auspices of Mambilla Progressive Cultural Association has raised an alarm over Taraba State Governor, Arch Ishaku Darius Dickson’s alleged plans through a judicial commission of inquiry to resettle Fulanis on their areas.A statement made available to this medium, signed by the group’s President, Rev. Moses Sufa, said that he is trying to use a…

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House hearing rehashes longstanding commercial space transportation issues

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House hearing rehashes longstanding commercial space transportation issues

WASHINGTON — A House aviation subcommittee hearing on commercial space transportation June 16 plowed familiar ground, revisiting a wide range of issues that have yet to be resolved.

One of the few new topics addressed at the hearing by the House Transportation Committee’s aviation subcommittee dealt with the Federal Aviation Administration’s response to SpaceX’s violation of its launch license during the December launch of its Starship SN8 prototype. SpaceX conducted that suborbital flight despite weather conditions that violated the “far field blast overpressure” limits of its license to protect the uninvolved public.

The FAA briefly halted Starship tests, requiring SpaceX to perform an investigation and make corrective actions, the agency said in February. The FAA imposed no other penalties on the company.

That prompted a March 25 letter from Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), chairs of the full House Transportation Committee and its space subcommittee, respectively, to FAA Administrator Steve Dickson, expressing their disappointment “that the FAA declined to conduct an independent review of the event and, to the best of our knowledge, has not pursued any form of enforcement action.”

At the hearing, DeFazio asked Wayne Monteith, FAA associate administrator for commercial space transportation, about the letter. Monteith said his office was satisfied with how SpaceX addressed the violation of its launch license.

“We would not have cleared them to start flight operations again had I not been confident that they had modified their procedures effectively and addressed the safety culture issues that we saw” on the SN8 launch, he said.

Despite the hearing’s title, “Starships and Stripes Forever – An Examination of the FAA’s Role in the Future of Spaceflight,” SpaceX was not among the witnesses. An industry source said that the company had not been invited to testify.

One industry witness who did appear was Tory Bruno, president and chief executive of United Launch Alliance. “It is vital that Congress provides FAA the support it needs to conduct effective oversight and enforcement of the licensing process,” he said in his opening statement. “Responsible operators will comply with FAA regulations and license. Those who do not should face enforcement and impactful consequences.”

Dual mandates and dueling committees

Much of the hearing, which lasted for more than two hours, along with a two-hour recess because of votes on the House floor, reviewed long-standing issues about regulation of commercial spaceflight and the activities of the FAA.

DeFazio, a longtime critic of the FAA’s “dual mandate” to both regulate and promote the commercial space transportation industry, reiterated his desire to end that mandate. “NASA can promote commercial space, the Commerce Department can promote it, whomever,” he said, vowing to introduce legislation to end that dual mandate. “It is not up to the FAA to promote commercial space and regulate it at the same time.”

Heather Krause, director of physical infrastructure at the Government Accountability Office, said the last review of the FAA’s dual mandate in commercial space transportation was in 2008. The Department of Transportation concluded at that time “there was no compelling reason to remove the promotional role for FAA through 2012,” she said. However, while that report recommended periodic reviews, there had been none since then. “Another review may be warranted.”

Monteith said while there has been no formal review of the dual mandate, the FAA does examine the issue more informally. “Everything is based on safety,” he said of his office’s work, noting its “encourage, facilitate and promote” role doesn’t extend to activities like marketing.

Committee members also discussed the integration of space launches and reentries into the national airspace system. That became a hot topic in 2018, when the inaugural launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket blocked airspace off the Florida coast for several hours on a weekday afternoon, rerouting hundreds of airline flights.

The commercial aviation and launch industries have since worked to better coordinate such activities, although not to the satisfaction of members like DeFazio, who said he was opposed to telling airline passengers that their flights were being delayed “because some millionaire or billionaire is going to experience 15 minutes of weightlessness.”

He pressed Monteith on the slow progress on a project called the Space Data Integrator, which is intended to provide information on launch activities more quickly to air traffic controllers and pilots, reducing the size and duration of airspace restrictions. That project has been in development for several years.

Monteith said there was no specific timeline for bringing the Space Data Integrator into full operation, although operational tests are scheduled to begin in the next few months. Work on it has accelerated, he said, since the project was handed over to Teri Bristol, chief operating officer of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization.

Projected growth in launch activity in the next several years is also expediting work on better integration of launches into the national airspace system. “The FAA must build upon a pattern of collaboration by the aviation and aerospace sectors,” said Capt. Joe DePete, the president of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), at the hearing. “ALPA believes that, now more than ever, the FAA, industry and labor can work together to create a national space integration strategy.”

A third familiar issue at the hearing involved the so-called “learning period,” which restricts the FAA’s ability to enact regulations regarding the safety of spaceflight participants, so that industry could build up enough experience to serve as the basis for such regulations. The learning period was established in a 2004 commercial space launch bill and originally intended to last for eight years. It has since been extended several times because of a lack of commercial human spaceflight activity, most recently to 2023.

Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), ranking member of the aviation subcommittee, suggested it’s time to consider yet another extension of the learning period. “Congress will need to decide whether to extend the learning period, let it lapse or find an alternative policy solution,” he said.

Mike Moses, president of space missions and safety at Virgin Galactic, argued an extension of the learning period would be warranted. “The industry is still in its early days, and more time is needed to have informed discussions on what the regulatory framework should look like in the future to support human spaceflight,” he said. “Extending the learning period would allow these discussions to take place in Congress, in partnership with industry and the FAA.”

This hearing is not the first time that the House Transportation Committee has examined commercial space transportation. It’s held hearings every couple of years over the last several years on the topic but has taken little action beyond those hearings.

That is, at least in part, because commercial space transportation lies in the jurisdiction of the House Science Committee. While the hearing was in progress, Reps. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and Brian Babin (R-Texas), ranking members of the full House Science Committee and its space subcommittee, released a letter they sent to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on commercial spaceflight.

The letter noted that the original Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 was prepared by the House Science Committee, as well as commercial launch bills in 2004 and 2015. Those bills “were drafted by committee leadership and solely referred to the committee,” they wrote in the letter.

Larsen acknowledged at the hearing that space was outside of the jurisdiction of his committee, but that its effects on airspace made it relevant. “We do not believe that we have jurisdiction over space, but you have to travel through airspace to get to space, what I like to think of as ‘our space,’” he said. “This is why this hearing is so critically important.”

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Lawan swears in Dickson, Abiru, two other Senator-elect

Senate President Ahmad Lawan swears in Seriake Dickson as senato

Senate President Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday swore in former Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, to represent Bayelsa West Senatorial District in the National Assembly.

Others who were sworn in are: Cleopas Moses (PDP – Bayelsa Central); Nora Ladi Daduut (APC – Plateau South); and Michael Adetokunbo Abiru (APC – Lagos East).

The lawmakers were sworn in at exactly 11:04am shortly after the commencement of plenary.

Two of the newly sworn in lawmakers, Nora Ladi Daduut and Adetokunbo Abiru replace the Late Senators Bayo Osinowo; and Ignatius Longjan who represented Lagos East and Plateau South before their demise in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Abiru, Born on March 25, 1964, served as the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Polaris Bank Limited until his resignation on August 24, 2020, to contest the Lagos East senatorial bye-election on the platform of the APC.

Abiru was also the Executive Director at First Bank Nigeria Ltd from 2013 to 2016, and served as the Honourable Commissioner of Finance, Lagos State, from 2011 to 2013 under the leadership of then Lagos Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola.

Professor Nora Daduut, born 10th May, 1953, until her election was the head of the French Department of the University of Jos.