ESD.129
Space Policy Seminar
Spring 2003
Topics
- What is Policy, why is it important, and why are we in space?
- Current stakeholders & their missions and roles
- Space history and policy in the fifties
- Space history and policy in the sixties
- Space history and policy in the seventies
- Space history and policy in the eighties
- Space history and policy in the nineties
- International and US Space Policy and Law
- Special Topic: Globalstar Special Topic: GPS & Galileo
- Special Topic: Space Launch
- Student Presentation on Term Project
- Scenarios for the Future: A Panel Discussion
Readings
- McDougall, Walter A. The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age . New York: Basic Books, 1985.
- Launius, Roger D., and Howard E. McCurdy. Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
- Stone, Deborah A. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making . New York : W.W. Norton, 1997.
- Spires, David N. Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership . US Government Printing Office, 1997.
- Albert D. Wheelon. “Space policy: How Technology, Economics and Public Policy Intersect” Working paper, MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society, 1988.
- Reynolds, Glenn H., and Robert P. Merges. Outer Space: Problems of Law and Policy . Boulder: Westview Press, 1989.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.