Mid & Long-term Prospects for Human Spaceflight | Center for Strategic & International Studies

By Ryan Faith, Vincent G. Sabathier, Ashley Bander, CSIS, Posted 09/01/09

Link: http://csis.org/publication/mid-and-long-term-prospects-human-spaceflight

"The next decade, ushered in by the new U.S. president and his administration, will be crucial to space exploration. Indeed, during the next decade, the Space Shuttle will have to be retired, the International Space Station (ISS) made a visible success, and humans returned to the moon. In fact, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently identified retirement of the Space Shuttle as one of the 13 most urgent issues that the new administration will need to address. Accordingly, CSIS put together a select working group to provide objective, bipartisan, and pragmatic insights into this complex set of issues." These recommendations have major relevance to the future of entrepreneurial space commerce. This May 2009 report can be purchased online at this url.