A new US approach to human spaceflight?

✍ Scribed by John M. Logsdon

• Book ID: 116889333
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 114 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0265-9646
• DOI: 10.1016/j.spacepol.2010.12.011

✦ Synopsis

In 2010 the administration of President Barack Obama proposed a dramatically new approach to future US human spaceflight. That new strategy was immediately controversial. This article traces the origins of the new spaceflight strategy and the continuing political debate with respect to its acceptance.