Pascale Ehrenfreund, research professor at the Space Policy Institute, was elected last week as the new President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). This new role is particularly exciting and makes history, as Dr. Ehrenfreund will be the first woman to serve as President of IAF! Congratulations to Dr. Ehrenfreund!…

Current and former Space Policy Institute faculty, students, alumni, and visiting scholars were at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen, Germany last week. Here are just a few photos of some of the group!

Dr. Hertzfeld was interviewed by NPR concerning the potential for space mining in the future.

Dr. Hertzfeld was on The Space Show on August 10th, discussing the issue of space as a global commons.

The Space Policy Institute and Universities Space Research Association co-hosted their annual conference on Wednesday, March 28th, 2018. Program brief: Sending American astronauts back to the moon for the first time since 1972, eventually to Mars and other deep space destinations called for under President Trump’s Space Policy Directive will…

“The Elliott School’s Scott Pace now leads President Trump’s revived National Space Council, which has its eye on the moon.” Click here to read the full article.

Two of our students have been appointed to positions with the Space Generation Advisory Council. Chris Beauregard will manage the SGx Conference in March, and Cody Knipfer is the new Strategic Communications Lead.

Our Director, Henry Hertzfeld, was recently featured in the DC Bar magazine Washington Lawyer for an article examining the 50th Anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty. Click here to read the full article.

Jack D. Fischer (Colonel, U.S. Air Force) was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in July 2009, and completed his training in 2011. The Colorado native served as a Flight Engineer aboard the International Space Station of the Expedition 51/52. He returned to Earth Sept. 2 from his first…

The National Space Council held its first meeting last Thursday at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, in front of Space Shuttle Discovery. The Space Policy Institute sent a delegation of students to watch members of the President’s Cabinet discuss the future of U.S. Space exploration…