CFR Task Force Report: Securing Space—A Plan for U.S. Action
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In its new report, Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action, the CFR Task Force on Space Management Policy analyzes the challenges in low Earth orbit, where the acceleration in human space activity is most evident, and proposes recommendations for a U.S.-led international strategy to govern this increasingly congested and contested space.
Virtual Session I: CFR’s Task Force on Space Management Policy
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FROMAN: Well, good morning everybody, and welcome. It is great to see you all here. We have a full room here. I understand we have about 200 additional people who registered on Zoom. And this is being livestreamed. So thank you all for participating and for joining us for this launch of our latest task force report, Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action. Now, more than sixty years ago with the launch of Sputnik 1, it created that so-called Sputnik moment where the U.S., then under John Kennedy, came together to say we want to put—we want to go to the moon in this decade. And we not only planted a flag on the moon before the end of that decade, but we took the steps necessary to make sure that the U.S. would be the world’s preeminent space power.
The task force starts by recognizing that the space domain that John F Kennedy faced is much different than the one that we face today. Since that time, we now have ninety countries that are space powers, thanks in large part to the private sector that have accelerated innovation and opened the door for more governments to...
Virtual Session II: Current Policy Challenges in Space
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HADLEY: Well, welcome back, and welcome to the second and final session today about the current policy challenges in space. I’m Steve Hadley. I’m a principal of Rice, Hadley, Gates, and Manuel, and a member of CFR’s Board of Directors, and I’ll be presiding over this session today.
We have two—excuse me—participants. We are joined today, of course, by an audience here at CFR and online.
Our participants today are Charles F. Bolden Jr., who should be coming up virtually with us today. He is the founder and chief executive officer emeritus of the Charles F. Bolden Group. He’s a former administrator of NASA from 2009 to 2017. He’s a former astronaut and a CFR member. And he’ll be speaking virtually. There he is. Connected with him. Terrific. We going to put him up here? Terrific. Charles, welcome. Thanks for being with us today.
BOLDEN: Glad to be with you.
HADLEY: And secondly, we have Ezinne Uzo-Okoro, who is a senior fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University, a venture partner in SineWave Ventures, a former assistant director for space policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. And welcome, and thanks for being with us...
