Commentary by Mike Snead, President, Spacefaring Institute™
107 – My commentary on why Space Policy Directive 4 goes much farther than just starting a U.S. Space Force; it starts America’s transition into a true human spacefaring nation Continue Reading107 – WOW! Examining Space Policy Directive 4 directing DOD to propose creating a U.S. Space Force and much more!
Post 106 – Recommended reading: Dr. Lamont Colucci argues that a full-fledged U.S. Space Force is needed to meet America’s needs this century in our now clearly apparent Great Power competition with China Continue Reading106 – Recommended reading: A Space Service in Support of American Grand Strategy
This article shows how America’s aerospace industry now has the capability to build a substantial and robust American LEO astrologistics infrastructure and provide aircraft-like fully-reusable space access for passengers. Continue Reading102 – DSIAC Journal article: American “astrologistics”
Disruptive American astrologistics: Unleashing the potential of America’s aerospace industry to assert American dominance in space. Continue Reading101 – Disruptive American astrologistics
A constitutional climate lawsuit against President Trump could trigger America undertaking GEO space solar power. Continue Reading100 – 2019: Moving America towards becoming a true human spacefaring nation (Part 3) – Updated
As General Arnold first recognized 60 years ago, the United States must become a true human spacefaring nation, both militarily and commercially. Continue Reading99 – 2019: Moving America towards becoming a true human spacefaring nation (Part 2)
While Congress is exhausting itself in the political judo of rearranging the “deck chairs” of Congress, technologically and operationally the United States is making significant strides towards the long-held national Continue Reading98 – 2019: Moving America towards becoming a true human spacefaring nation (Part 1)
“The US ‘Space Force’ and Its Implications” by Namrata Goswami is an excellent analysis of President Trump’s call for a U.S. Space Force and its implications on national and international Continue Reading92 – Recommended reading: “The US ‘Space Force” and its Implications” by Namrata Goswami
President Trump’s reconstitution of the National Space Council, combined with his growing official interest in U.S. government and commercial space capabilities, has opened the door to a substantial advance of Continue Reading90 – National Space Council Users’ Advisory Group
President Trump signed Space Policy Directive 3 on June 18, 2018. This follows Space Policy Directive 1, signed on December 11, 2017, and Directive 2 signed on May 24, 2018. Continue Reading89 – Space Policy Directive 3 (June 18, 2018)
At his Wednesday night (June 20, 2018) Minnesota rally, when President Trump began to explain that he was reinvigorating NASA’s human space exploration program, supporters spontaneously took up the chant Continue Reading88 – Overcoming the “deep state” opposition to a U.S. Space Force
President Trump signed Space Policy Directive 2 on May 24, 2018. This follows Space Policy Directive 1 signed on December 11, 2017. This directive addresses: commercial spaceflight licensing, commercial remote Continue Reading87 – Space Policy Directive 2 (May 24, 2018)
President Trump has signed two additional policy directives addressing space. This and the next two Spacefaring America blog postings will share the first three Space Policy Directives of President Trump. Continue Reading86 – Space Policy Direct 1 (December 11, 2017)
My article, Making President Trump the Champion of GEO Space Solar Power, was published in the Volume 6, No. 1 (Fall, 2017) edition of the online Journal of Space Philosophy. Continue Reading78 – JSP article: Making President Trump the Champion of GEO Space Solar Power
President Trump’s reconstitution of the National Space Council has generated important public discussion of America’s future in outer space as a true commercial human spacefaring nation. On October 5, 2017, Continue Reading76 – Space Review Article: Some commentary about the National Space Council’s inaugural meeting (Part 2)
In President Trump, pro-spacefaring Americans have a president who, for perhaps the first time since President Kennedy, advocates for America to return to being—using a phrase from Kennedy’s 1962 speech Continue Reading75 – Space Review article: Some commentary about the National Space Council’s inaugural meeting (Part 1)
The following is a transcript of the inaugural meeting of the reconstituted National Space Council held on October 5, 2017. I prepared this transcript based on the above video recording Continue Reading74 – Transcript of the October 5, 2017 meeting of the National Space Council
On September 11, 2017, this article was published in The Space Review. A PDF of the article is here. Please use the ‘Follow” button on the lower right side Continue Reading73 – Space Review article: Forming an American Spacefaring Advisory Group to the National Space Council
On January 23, 2017, this article was published in The Space Review. A PDF of the article is here. The apparent intention of the Trump administration to reestablish the National Continue Reading71 – Space Review article: An engineer’s view of what low-cost, reusable, commerical passenger space transportation means
On January 9, 2017, this article was published in The Space Review. (A PDF of the article is here.) In the 1990s, I began to focus on how to build Continue Reading70 – Space Review article: Should NASA build spacefaring logistics infrastructure?