Events: Reports
Fifty Years and Beyond | NASA Headquarters
This is an excellent short (20 page) profile of NASA and some of its people in 2008 on its 50th birthday. Written by key staff in the NASA History Office it will be of interest to NASA veterans as well as the general public.
Approaches to Future Space Cooperation & Competition in a Globalizing World | NAP
"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.
Notes on "Innovations in Orbit: An Exploration of Commercial Crew & Cargo Transportation"
These notes were taken by Clark Lindsey of HobbySpace.Com in collaboration with Ken Davidian, FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation. Davidian was one of the panel participants in this important AIAA-sponsored event in Washington, DC, June 18, 2009. The meeting was held at Hyatt Regency Washington, Capitol Hill and included commercial space industry and government panels followed by a Q&A session.