Space Policy Seminar

Calendar

LEC #	Topics	Readings Due	Assignments Due
1	What is Policy, why is it important, and why are we in space?
2	Current stakeholders & their missions and roles	Stone. Chap. 1, 2 Intro. Web sites for space policy players. Documents in Reading 01. Logsdon. “Rationale for space programs.”	Memo: Stone Reading
3	Space history and policy in the fifties	McDougall. p. 1-230 Selected reading on history of the NRO	Memo: Satellite Flyover
4	Space history and policy in the sixties	McDougall. p. 231-407	Memo: Moon Mission
5	Space history and policy in the seventies	Launius, and McCurdy. Chap. 4 Wheelon. Chap. 1, 2 Spires. Chap. 4, 5	Memo: Apollo
6	Space history and policy in the eighties	Launius, and McCurdy, Chap. 2 Spires. Chap. 6 Wheelon. Chap. 3, 4 Documents in Reading 02	Memo: Challenger
7	Space history and policy in the nineties	Launius, and McCurdy. Chap. 5, 6, Epilogue Spires. Chap. 7, 8 “State of the Space Industry” Report Documents in Reading 03	Memo: ISS Hab Module
8	International and US Space Policy and Law	Reynolds, and Merges. Chap. 2-4 Selected summaries of space law	Memo: Moon Treaty
9	Special Topic: Globalstar Special Topic: GPS & Galileo	TBA
10	Special Topic: Space Launch	TBA
11	Student Presentation on Term Project	Provided by students	Group Term Briefing
12	Scenarios for the Future: A Panel Discussion		Group Term Project reports Memo: Next US Space Endeavor