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Home page  About CSIS Programs Human Space Exploration Initiative Brussels Conference
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Brussels Conference
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 The vision and direction that we choose to follow in the months and years ahead will determine the path of human space exploration for the next century and beyond.
The Human Space Exploration Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a major conference on the future of human space exploration in Brussels, Belgium on February 16, 2005.
 Conference speakers included Apollo 11 astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin, X-Prize founder Dr. Peter Diamandis, AIAA President Mr. Don Richardson, former International Space University President Dr. Karl Doetsch, UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Chairman Dr. Gerard Brachet, NASA astronaut and lecturer Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, and other international leaders and promoters of space exploration. Conference Background and Objectives Over the past 500 years, there have been three great ages of exploration, from Columbus and Magellan and the Age of Discovery, to Gagarin, Glenn and Armstrong and the Space Age. For the last thirty years, however, humans have been stuck in low-earth orbit, with little advances in building a future of humans in space. Today, with Europe, the United States, Japan, and China considering new independent roadmaps to bring humans back to the Moon and beyond, we are at the frontier of the next giant leap in space exploration.  The conference took place in Brussels in coordination with the European Commission's Earth and Space Week, one day prior to an inter-governmental space conference hosted by the European Space Agency and the European Commission. CSIS has released a report summarizing the conference’s initial findings on key challenges and recommendations for future space exploration.
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