People in Space: Policy Perspectives for a "Star Wars" CenturyJames Everett Katz U.S. military strategy, particularly the "Star Wars" scenarios, has generated renewed interest in outer space. The implications for the security of nations on Earth and other emerging space policy problems are examined in this volume. People in Space is organized into three sections following an overview by Katz: military activities in space, civilian activities in space, and space as a sociological phenomenon. The authors treat the human uses of outer space as endeavors wherein ordinary policy and sociological processes take place. They offer perspectives on how space policy ought to be and is being formed. Space policy is a new, often emotionally charged field, laden with conflicting ideas, values, and worldviews. |
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... missions related to the national defense . I have also assumed that NASA's projected flight rate — which is a constant number of flights per year is correct . This obviously leads to a linear growth in the number of people going into ...
... mission and with no new meaningful goal to take its place , NASA's lack of direction and tightening budgets began to ... missions had a widely depressive influence , and the diminishing enthusiasm of the space agency reduced or ...
... mission . Those plans were blocked because of their expense and because of public skepticism about the legitimacy of space exploration . Nevertheless , Nixon approved the Space Shuttle plan — on a greatly reduced scale -- because lack ...
... mission . " Figure 1 indicates the degree to which U.S. space involvement has slowed relative to that of the Soviet Union . 11 Though the warming of relations with the USSR over space exploration reached a high point in 1975 with the ...
... Mission to the Moon : A Critical Examination of NASA and the Space Program ( New York : Morrow . 1969 ) : O. Wilkes and N. Gleditsch , " Op- tical Satellite Tracking . " Journal of Peace Research 15 ( 1978 ) : 205-25 . 57. See E ...
Contents
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Military Activities in Space | 33 |
Space and the Preservation of Freedom | 35 |
Space Militarization A Costly Mistake | 40 |
Space Militarization and the Maintenance of Deterrence | 44 |
Space Militarization and International Law | 55 |
Civilian Activities in Space | 65 |
The Space Station Mankinds Permanent Presence in Space | 67 |
The Controversy over Remote Sensing | 129 |
The Moon Treaty Reflections on the Proposed Moon Treaty Space Law and the Future | 140 |
The Sociology of Outer Space | 151 |
Beyond Bureaucratic Policy The Space Flight Movement | 153 |
The Social Forces behind Technological Change and Space Policymaking | 164 |
Extraterrestrial Intelligence The Social Impact of an Idea | 178 |
The Social Psychology of Space Travel | 194 |
Must There Be Space Colonies? A Jurisprudential Drift to Historicism | 207 |
US International Space Activities | 82 |
The Proliferation of Communications Satellites Gold Rush in the Clarke Orbit | 98 |
Underdevelopment via Satellite The Interests of the German Space Industry in Developing Countries and Their Consequences | 110 |
About the Contributors | 220 |
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People in Space: Policy Perspectives for a "Star Wars" Century James Everett Katz No preview available - 1985 |
People in Space: Policy Perspectives for a "star Wars" Century James Everett Katz No preview available - 1985 |
People in Space: Policy Perspectives for a "star Wars" Century James Everett Katz No preview available - 1985 |