"This is not your father's Apollo, " says John Logsdon of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University.
Many in the rocketry business are pigeonholed in such highly specialized fields as astronautical engineering, space policy, or space law.
Henry Hertzfeld, a space analyst at George Washington University's Space Policy Institute, said he is not so sure the U.N.
To its credit, the Bush Administration has recognized these realities in its quite robust National Space Policy (NSP) published in October 2006.
Even more troublesome to the incoming Bush Administration may be the Clinton-Gore effort to tie its successor's hands with respect to space policy.
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The Clinton Administration, it seems to me -- despite a space policy that talks about space control -- is promulgating a policy that says we won't do it.
Interestingly, President Clinton's administration had previously adopted a space policy that was also reasonably forceful about the necessity of the United States being able to exercise space control.
In 2010, the White House released its sweeping national space policy for the country, which identified orbital debris and the long-term sustainable use of space as clear priorities.
As a result, the Council appeared not to perform its essential function as an "honest broker" in space policy-making and acted on the basis of a highly partisan and flawed study.
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The 1967 Outer Space Treaty provides for "free access to all areas of celestial bodies" by any nation, but isn't clear about commercial rights, said Henry Hertzfeld, who researches space policy at George Washington University.
With the success behind it, SpaceX still needs to demonstrate the long-term strength of its business model, according to Howard McCurdy, a space policy expert and professor of public affairs at American University in Washington, D.
When Clinton tapped him as his running mate in July 1992, Gore brought some impressive experience to the table, including service in the House and Senate, serious environmental credentials and expertise in science, space policy and emerging communication technologies.
The report, prepared by technical and space policy experts from the Departments of Defense and State, with support from the Intelligence Community and NASA, was conducted in accordance with Section 1248 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010.
"The US government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race, " wrote space policy expert Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Occupiers from both sides together escorted people out of the camp who they say violated the "Safer Space" policy, which prohibits Occupiers from making too much disruption or starting fights.
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"In the event of a significant downside scenario, the economy has sufficient policy space to respond, especially on the fiscal side, " the IMF said in a report on the Asian economy.
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"We do not currently have the capability to track debris smaller than 10 centimeters, but our estimate is that there are hundreds of thousands of pieces of debris that size and smaller that have the potential to do damage, " said Frank Rose, deputy assistant secretary of state for space and defense policy.
For those who have some policy space about letting automatic stabilizers do their work, about using discretionary measures, you will see good language in there, again, about how those surplus economies really need to take concrete actions to shift to more domestic demand-led growth, including by using exchange rates, but also by using domestic measures.
The outgoing Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell thinks freedom of information has gone too far in eroding a confidential "safe space" for ministerial policy discussions.
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Since September, the government has acted aggressively to attract foreign investment and improve its weak financial position, raising hopes that such steps would allow the RBI space to ease monetary policy and revive economic growth.
Rock-bottom interest rates mean that, economically, there is theoretically space for more expansionary fiscal policy.
But they do give the Scottish Executive breathing space as it formulates an economic policy designed to tackle Scotland's longer-term problems.
And we have time and space to continue to pursue that policy.
Under a dual-currency system, member countries would continue to enjoy the benefits of the euro while increasing their maneuvering space to drive monetary and fiscal policy on a local basis.
Commenting on its most recent move, the RBI said in a statement that the slowdown in the rate of inflation "provides space, albeit limited, for monetary policy to give greater emphasis to growth risks".
But exploring the space of possible technologies is a good basic policy.
Labour's Jack Straw - who helped draft the Freedom of Information Act - has said it should be re-written to create a protected space for cabinet ministers and officials to discuss policy.
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