SPI graduate student, Chris Beauregard will attend and participate in the 2017 Fusion Forum in Colorado Springs, organized by the Space Generation Advisory Council in conjunction with Space Symposium. At Fusion Forum, Chris will participate in the “Investing in Space/The New Space Economy” Working Group to provide perspective on policy’s…

Dr. Pace commented on Trump Administration interests in human spaceflight in a Washington Post article titled, “NASA, heeding Trump, may add astronauts to a test flight moon mission”, among others.

Laura’s work, “When inspiration fails to inspire: A change of strategy for the US space program”, originally written for a graduate course in space policy, was published in the Space Policy Journal in 2011. It was recently selected by Former Editor-in-Chief, Frances Brown, as one of her favorite pieces in…

Dr. John Logsdon provided comment on human spaceflight under the Trump Administration in a USA Today article titled, “Under Trump, astronauts might chart a new path to a familiar place: The moon”.

Dr. Hertzfeld’s comments were featured in The Verge’s article, “How an international treaty signed 50 years ago became the backbone for space law”.

Dr. Pace commented for Inside GNSS on the risks of GPS interference in the context of cybersecurity in “GPS Roundup: Congress Reopens for Business”.

In December, GW and Vector, a company that connects space startups and innovations with reliable and affordable space access, reached an agreement to license plasma thruster technology created by School of Engineering and Applied Science Professor Michael Keidar and researchers in his lab. The technology allows researchers to propel miniature…

Dr. Logsdon was able to give perspective on the rate of Chinese launches in “China’s Growing Ambitions in Space”, published by The Atlantic.

Dr. Livingston was recently elected me to serve on the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.

Dr. Pace and Dr. Logsdon reflected on the Obama Administration’s space contributions in The Verge’s “Obama’s NASA made strides on commercial space, but stumbled on exploration”.