Issues and Opportunities Regarding the U.S. Space Program:

A Summary Report of a Workshop on National Space Policy

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Size: 92 pages, 8 1/2 x 11

Publication Year:2004

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Radford Byerly, Jr., University of Colorado, Richard B. Leshner and Pamela L. Whitney, National Research Council
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Ever since the completion of the Apollo program, there has been a lack of consensus about the future of human spaceflight. The Columbia tragedy in February 2003 rekindled public debate about this question. In November 2003, the Space Studies Board ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
1 Summary	1-7	(skim)
2 Introduction	8-13	(skim)
3 Origins of U.S. Space Policy	14-18	(skim)
4 Rationales for the Space Program: Science, Technology, and Exploration	19-23	(skim)
5 Rationales for the Space Program: National Security, Commerce, and International Cooperation	24-28	(skim)
6 Guiding Principles of a 21st Century Space Policy	29-33	(skim)
7 Boundary Conditions for Forging a 21st Century Space Policy	34-37	(skim)
8 Coming to Closure	38-42	(skim)
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda	43-46	(skim)
Appendix B: Workshop Participants	47-48	(skim)
Appendix C: Statement of Task	49-49	(skim)
Appendix D: Biographies of Workshop Speakers	50-52	(skim)
Appendix E: Abstracts Prepared by Workshop Participants	53-78	(skim)

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Ever since the completion of the Apollo program, there has been a lack of consensus about the future of human spaceflight. The Columbia tragedy in February 2003 rekindled public debate about this question. In November 2003, the Space Studies Board and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board organized a workshop to explore aspects of the question, what should be the principal purpose, goals, and priorities of the U.S. civil space program? This report presents a factual summary of that workshop, which identified past lessons learned and guiding principles for the future of the civil space program. Seven broad themes emerged from the workshop, and these themes are highlighted in the report. The report also presents discussions of strategies for the human spaceflight program and guiding principles of and boundary conditions for a 21st century space policy.

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