Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Vincent Sabathier, director of the CSIS Human Space Exploration Initiative, and Ryan Faith, Program Manager, had a commentary published in the Orlando Sentinel, "Presidential Leadership Can Propel U.S. Space Program."
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Vincent Sabathier, director of the CSIS Human Space Exploration Initiative, and Ryan Faith, Program Manager, had a commentary published in the Orlando Sentinel, "Presidential Leadership Can Propel U.S. Space Program."
This year, the 50th anniversary of the launch of Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite, has seen leading candidates from both parties taking an early interest in space. In fact, it has been the earliest appearance of space in a presidential contest since the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon election.
The candidates have generally supported a balanced and robust space program, but there has been little discussion about what this actually means. NASA today is faced with great uncertainty, stemming from the retirement of the shuttle, to questions about access and utilization of the international space station. These unanswered issues are of vital concern for the United States and its international partners, and the U.S. will need to make serious choices about ending existing programs to prepare for the return to the moon. Read the article
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