United States Civil Space Policy

Summary of a Workshop

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• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN: 9780309178778
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In 2004, the NRC released a workshop report about the future direction of the U.S. civil space program. At the same time, the Administration announced the Vision for Space Exploration, and in June 2004, it issued a report that articulated a balanced space program for human and robotic exploration and science. Subsequent NRC reports, however, have noted that NASA has not been given the resources to carry out this broad-based program. This challenge, along with others faced by the U.S. civil space program, stimulated the NRC to form an ad hoc committee to organize a second workshop, held in November 2007, to address the space program's future directions. The workshop's goal was to air a range of views and perspectives so as to inform discussions of these questions by policymakers and the public. This book presents a summary of the workshop.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
• Other Reports of the Space Studies Board and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board
• PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR WORKSHOP ON U.S. CIVIL SPACE POLICY
• RAPPORTEUR
• STAFF
• SPACE STUDIES BOARD
• AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ENGINEERING BOARD
• Preface
• Acknowledgment of Reviewers
• Contents
• Summary
• 1 Background
• 2 Assessment of the Current Situation
• 3 Strategic Issues and Options for Solutions
• 4 Epilogue
• Appendixes
• A Statement of Task
• B Workshop Agenda
• C Workshop Participants