John Logsdon
John Logsdon
John Logsdon is the founder and from 1987–2008 was the Director of the Space Policy Institute at The George Washington University...
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It's like an upside-down bungee jump. There'll be a few moments to view the Earth and then you come right back down.
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There is widespread agreement, even among those otherwise critical of the station science, that it is an essential platform for research related to the impacts on humans of long duration spaceflight,
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You can't start talking about space until you set an overall policy. Our space relationship gets to a basic question of whether the United States tries to contain an emerging China or engage it.
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The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance, ... It has several elements to it. One is to say that the people who did Apollo were pretty smart.
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The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance.
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It is clear that the White House has made a policy decision that we are going to honor our international agreements on ISS, and we are going to continue to fly the shuttle in order to launch the international components.
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It's been pretty well coordinated among the centers. It appears to provide for a smooth transition.
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It's not clear yet whether the 2007 budget will allow a CEV by 2012. There is a complex interplay between the fiscal 2007 budget in particular, the date for initial CEV availability and the potential for accelerating return to the Moon.
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His goal is to find the best possible technical managers so the shuttle and the space station, especially the shuttle, are operated in the safest possible manner for the rest of their service lives.
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Most recommendations are coming out of the VA.