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Space Policy Institute graduate Kate Becker was presented with the Silver Sherman Award for her contributions to NOAA. The award recognizes individual performance above normal requirements, achievement of a milestone that contributed significantly or critically toward the attainment of a particular program goal, and/or demonstration of leadership toward process improvement of a significant magnitude.
“The Russian space sector is short of funding, and may be having difficulties maintaining its quality control standards,” said John Logsdon, a Planetary Society board member and professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at George Washington University.
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“The first 100 days will include a submission of a budget, and that budget will give important clues to the administration’s intentions,” Logsdon says.
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“It is very plausible to speculate that the new administration will insert a mission to the lunar surface, probably international in character, as a step on the way to Mars,” said John Logsdon.
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Dr. Logsdon’s 2015 book, After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program, was acknowledged as the year’s “best original contribution to the field of aeronautical or astronautical non-fiction literature.” He previously received the award for his 2010 book, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon.
“Things are more complicated now than they’ve ever been,” says Logsdon. “Space activity would occur in the new NASA-Department of Defense-intelligence community framework.”
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Dr. Logsdon was interviewed by National Geographic regarding space law and accepted questions from viewers in a 15-minute session that amassed over 80,000 views.
Dr. Logsdon provided his perception of international space policy goals that will be decided by the Trump Administration in the near term, citing a plausible return to the lunar surface. Read the article HERE.
Dr. Logsdon was quoted by several sources, including National Geographic, Yahoo News, and Nature.
Dr. Logsdon will provide expert commentary in an upcoming episode of the new series that tells the story of the first crew to land on the Red Planet in 2033, intermixed with experts discussing the challenges of such a voyage here in 2016.
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