Approaches to Future Space Cooperation & Competition in a Globalizing World | NAP

By James V. Zimmerman, Rapporteur, National Research Council, Posted 06/23/09

Link: http://cart.nap.edu/cart/deliver.cgi?&record_id=12694

"The Planning Committee for the Workshop on U.S. Civil Space Policy (Space Studies Board of National Acad. of Sciences)...organized a public workshop (Nov '08) to review past and present cooperation, coordination, and competition mechanisms for space and earth science research and space exploration; identify significant lessons learned, and discuss how those lessons could best be applied in the future particularly in the areas of cooperation and collaboration." Sixty U.S. and non-U.S. participants represented government, academia, and industry in the areas of: civil and commercial space, science and technology policy, international relations and space history. This workshop was held as the global economic collapse began and provides an excellent foundation for understanding the opportunities and challenges in commercial space. It also includes two first-class invited papers.