John Logsdon
John Logsdon
John Logsdon is the founder and from 1987–2008 was the Director of the Space Policy Institute at The George Washington University...
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It's like an upside-down bungee jump. There'll be a few moments to view the Earth and then you come right back down.
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There is widespread agreement, even among those otherwise critical of the station science, that it is an essential platform for research related to the impacts on humans of long duration spaceflight,
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The bill is an affirmation of support. But it's also a challenge to the administration to pony up for the transformational space program it outlined two years ago.
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It's a schedule that is as much political as it is technical. It reflects the partners' concern about the shuttle because they've moved the launch of the partners' modules up to the earliest time.
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It's been pretty well coordinated among the centers. It appears to provide for a smooth transition.
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This is an important test of the political will of the United States to be a responsible leader in international space affairs. It would be unfortunate if the United States walked away from its past international commitments as it begins its journey of space exploration.
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You might tap an initial pool of people with lots of money and nothing better to do,
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The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance, ... It has several elements to it. One is to say that the people who did Apollo were pretty smart.
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The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance.
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You can't start talking about space until you set an overall policy. Our space relationship gets to a basic question of whether the United States tries to contain an emerging China or engage it.