Reopening the Space Frontier escapes the usual arc of space policy
analysis focused on technological choice and instead explains the
international legal and political economic barriers to the renewed
exploration, development and settlement of celestial bodies like
the Moon and Mars. The science and engineering of the mid-twentieth
century were sufficient for human landings on the Moon. Yet today
the human adventure in space is limited to visits by small numbers
of astronauts to a single space station in Earth orbit. As the
author explains, using the institutions that opened terrestrial
geographic frontiers in the past provides the effective means for
reopening the space frontier. Along the way he demolishes the
wishful thinking that has shackled popular thinking about space
policy. International competition rather than international
cooperation motivated states to open terrestrial frontiers for
centuries, and that motivation will have to be harnessed again for
our species to permanently occupy other worlds of the solar system.
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