- 29 July 2012
- Added "Space Debris and Its Mitigation
" to the archive.
- 16 July 2012
- Space Future has been on something of a hiatus of late. With the concept of Space Tourism steadily increasing in acceptance, and the advances of commercial space, much of our purpose could be said to be achieved. But this industry is still nascent, and there's much to do. So...watch this space.
- 9 December 2010
- Updated "What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace
- 7 December 2008
- "What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace
- 30 November 2008
- Added Lynx
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KEY DOCUMENTS
Here are some key documents from the archive to get you started:
- What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace
- Space Tourism Market Demand and the Transportation Infrastructure
- General Public Space Travel and Tourism
- Artificial Gravity and the Architecture of Orbital Habitats
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Papers & Publications
Bibliographic Index and Reference Database
This is the categorised bibliographic index.
- To read a paper in the archive select its title from the list of entries below.
- Choose Full Entry to view full details and a list of associated terms, references and back-references.
- Use the topic categories to navigate and view documents in parent and sub-categories.
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| Origin: | IAF paper no. IAC-03-LBN.1.08 | ||
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| Origin: | Before the U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics | ||
| Published: | 20 June 2001 | ||
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| Origin: | STATEMENT SUBMITTED IN TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SPACE AND AERONAUTICS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SCIENCE COMMITTEE. This Hearing Is Concerned With The New U.S. Space Transportation "Initiative". 20 June 2001 | ||
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| Origin: | . Tuesday, 26 June 2001. Written Testimony Prepared for The United States House of Representatives. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics. Hearing on "Space Tourism". 2318 Rayburn Building | ||
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| Origin: | . 26 June 2001. For the U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space & Aeronautics. Hearing on Space Tourism | ||
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| Origin: | Space Energy and Transportation, Volume 1, Number 1 - 1996 |
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| Origin: | Presented at the World Future Society Conference, Chicago, IL, July 19-21, 1998 | ||
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| Origin: | September 2003. Presented at Space 2003, Long Beach, CA | ||
| Published: | September 2003 | ||
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| Origin: | Acta Astronautica, Vol 48, No. 5-12, pp 921-950 | ||
| Published: | 2000 | ||
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| Origin: | Held in Banff Canada, January 1998. The workshop was the 4th in a series, and comprised 5 working parties of which No 4 was on public space travel - the first time that this subject has been dealt with in this series of workshops. | ||
| Published: | January 1998 | ||
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| Origin: | 22nd International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, Morioka, Japan, June 2000 |
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| Origin: | . 1988, The Sophron Foundation. Most of the substance of this paper was presented at the 48th Annual meeting of the International Astronautical Federation in Turin, Italy, on October 7, 1997. It now reflects this year's Federal government budget decisions by the President of the United States. |
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| Published: | October 7, 1997 | ||
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| Origin: | JBIS, Vol 59, pp 400-411. | ||
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| Origin: | Presented at 2nd IAASS Conference, Chicago, 15 May 2007 | ||
| Published: | 14 May 2007 | ||
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| Origin: | Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol 55, pp 149-159 | ||
| Published: | 2002 | ||
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| Origin: | Originally presented at Plenary Session of the International Academy of Astronautics' 1st Symposium on Private Human Access to Space, held at Arcachon in France, 25-28 May 2008. |
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Administrator's Strategic Outlook
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| Origin: | http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office.nsp/outlook.htm (28 February 1999). | ||
| Published: | 30 October 1997 | ||
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Astronautics - A New Product for Agencies' Space Activities
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| Origin: | a "Space 2020" Position Paper on Astronautics, presented at "Space 2020 Round Table," ESTEC. | ||
| Published: | June 1995 | ||
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Bills Would Bait Investors
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| Published: | 1996 | ||
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Bureaucracy and Representative Government
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| Origin: | Edward Elgar Press, reprinted in Bureaucracy and Public Economics, 1996. | ||
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Can Democracies Fly in Space? The Challenge of Revitalizing the U.S. Space Program
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| Origin: | p.172, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT. | ||
| Published: | 1995 | ||
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Economics of space and the role of government
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Evaluation of Funding for UK Civil Space Activity
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| Origin: | DTI Assessment Paper No 42, (URN 01/1032), | ||
| Published: | 2001 | ||
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Final Report of the Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry
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Government Actions to Enable Space Business Parks
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| Origin: | Engineering Construction & Operations in Space 5, ASCE, Vol 1, pp 186-193. | ||
| Published: | 1996 | ||
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Has Space A Future?
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| Origin: | address to the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences, Bern, 22-23 September | ||
| Published: | 1994 | ||
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Hidden Perils in Government Support of Space Activities
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Implementing the Space Option: Elaboration and Dissemination of a New Rationale for Space - Part II: The Space Option
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| Origin: | IAA Paper IAA.8.1-93-764b. | ||
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Implementing the Space Option: Elaboration and Dissemination of a New Rationale for Space, Part I: The Rationale
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| Origin: | paper IAA.8.1-93-764a. | ||
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Implementing the Space Option: Elaboration and Dissemination of a New Rationale for Space, Part II: The Space Option
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Measuring the Economic Impact of Federal R&D Investments in Civil Space Activities
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| Origin: | National Academy of Sciences Workshop. | ||
| Published: | 21-22 November 1985 | ||
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NASA administrator rules out shuttle for space tourism
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| Origin: | Commerc. Space Rep. 9, No.8, 6 | ||
| Published: | 1985 | ||
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New Opportunity for Malaysia in Space Tourism
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| Origin: | 2nd International Tourism Outlook Conference, University Technology MARA. | ||
| Published: | 4 December 2005 | ||
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Our Federal Civil Space Program: What Happened? What Now?
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| Origin: | Space Transportation Association |
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Policy and law in Japanese space commercialization
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| Origin: | in ZLW 40. Jg. 4/1991. | ||
| Published: | 1991 | ||
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Policy and legal issues involved in the commercialization of space
| Origin: | Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, U.S. Senate, 1983, P.23. | ||
| Published: | 1983 | ||
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Possible directions for a new era of space activities
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| Origin: | Proceedings of 5th
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Potential Benefits of British Investment in Commercial Passenger Space Transportation
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| Origin: | Memorandum to Deputy Director-General of the BNSC, May 1999, Appendix to Trade and Industry Committee Tenth Report, | ||
| Published: | 1999 | ||
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Proposed Bill Would Revise Satellite Export Laws
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| Origin: | Space News This Week, p3. | ||
| Published: | 19 February 2001 | ||
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Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
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| Origin: | Owl Books. | ||
| Published: | 2002 | ||
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Satellite Power System International Agreements
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| Origin: | HCP/R-4024-08 | ||
| Published: | 1978 | ||
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Science with a Vengance: How the Military Created the US Space Sciences After World War II
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| Origin: | Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 10. | ||
| Published: | 1992 | ||
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Solar power satellites and the ITU: some US policy options
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| Origin: | Annals of Air and Space Law, Vol.4. | ||
| Published: | 1979 | ||
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Space 2030: Tackling Society's Challenges
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| Origin: | OECD, Paris. | ||
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Space Tourism - New Economy and Technology for Developing Countries
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| Origin: | Faculty of Civil Engineering, University Technology MARA Shah Alam, Malaysia. | ||
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Space, the Dormant Frontier: Changing the Paradigm for the 21st Century
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| Origin: | Westport, CT: Praeger, p154. | ||
| Published: | 1997 | ||
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Space: A New European Frontier for an Expanding Union: An Action Plan for Implementing the European Space Policy
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| Origin: | EU White Paper, Brussels | ||
| Published: | 2003 | ||
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Space: a third great age of discovery
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Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs
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| Origin: | IX Space, U. S. Congress, Washington, D. C. | ||
| Published: | 25 May 1961 | ||
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The Auxiliary Space Fleet
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| Origin: | Final Frontier 5.2: 54 61. | ||
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The Cost of Governments' Monopolisation of Space Travel
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| Origin: | Proceedings of Public Choice Society Annual Meeting. | ||
| Published: | 2002 | ||
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The Economic Impact of Commercial Space Transportation on the U.S. Economy: 2002 Results and Outlook for 2010
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| Origin: | FAA, Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation. | ||
| Published: | 2003 | ||
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The Economic Impact of NASA R&D Spending
| Origin: | Chase Econometrics Associates Inc. | ||
| Published: | 1976 | ||
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The Emerging Roadmap to Space
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| Origin: | Space News | ||
| Published: | 27 January 2003 | ||
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The Heavens and the Earth: a Political History of the Space Age
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| Origin: | pp.318-320, Basic Books, Inc. | ||
| Published: | 1985 | ||
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The Moon/Mars Proposal: President Bush's Space Exploration Initiative
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| Origin: | U.S. Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, Issue Brief 90112 (regularly updated), Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. | ||
| Published: | 1992 | ||
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The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (as amended): Some Observations Concerning the Departure of Our Civil Space Program from this Law Over the Past 10-12 Years And the Results to the Program From so Doing
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| Origin: | Sophron Foundation | ||
| Published: | 12 July 2003 | ||
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration: An Overview and FY 1999 Budget Analysis
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| Origin: | Congressional Research Service. | ||
| Published: | 1998 | ||
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The Prospects for European Aerospace Transporters, part 4: Historical and political considerations
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Aeronautical Journal, Vol 93, No 923, pp 87-92 |
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The Space Option & Our Future: Some Considerations on the Thermal Burden
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| Origin: | London (England) | ||
| Published: | 23 June 1994 | ||
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The US Government Civil Space Programme: It Must be Changed Fundamentally and Soon
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| Origin: | Space Policy May 1992, Pages 103-108. | ||
| Published: | May 1992 | ||
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The rocky road to space-launch heaven
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Aerospace America Vol.34 No.11 pp 20-25 |
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| Published: | November 1996 | ||
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Towards a New Public-Private Space Transportation Strategy
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JPAS, Vol 5, No 1, pp 1-41 |
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Towards the new era of space transportation
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International Aerospaceplanes Conference,
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Who Really Won the Space Race?
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| Origin: | Collins & Brown, p. 16. | ||
| Published: | 2005 | ||
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