Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Challenger Main Ballroom
Start Date
27-4-1993 2:00 PM
End Date
27-4-1993 5:00 PM
Description
United States and world space programs have been the reagent for many real and perceived benefits to the American economy and the world in general. While many space programs were derived without a synergistic process, future space endeavors can provide opportunities to pursue technologies that could benefit the world in many ways. Goals can be set and development pursued through synergistic action and collective goals that lead to low cost, nonpolluting power systems, low water and low pesticide plant growth techniques, improved waste and water control systems, and, perhaps, solutions to problems such as osteoporosis and diseases caused by failure of the human immune system. Space exploration can be a catalyst for a better world while meeting both national and international goals.
This paper not only analyzes benefits to the U.S. economy, education, and industrial leadership, but also recommends that future national or international space endeavors emphasize a new beginning. Development dollars for new space exploration systems can be focused in part on world needs by utilizing technologies most likely to benefit the economy and aid in creating potential solutions to existing and future world problems. Space exploration can generate benefits of far greater value than its overall cost
Paper Session I-C - Maximizing World Benefits from Space Endeavors
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Challenger Main Ballroom
United States and world space programs have been the reagent for many real and perceived benefits to the American economy and the world in general. While many space programs were derived without a synergistic process, future space endeavors can provide opportunities to pursue technologies that could benefit the world in many ways. Goals can be set and development pursued through synergistic action and collective goals that lead to low cost, nonpolluting power systems, low water and low pesticide plant growth techniques, improved waste and water control systems, and, perhaps, solutions to problems such as osteoporosis and diseases caused by failure of the human immune system. Space exploration can be a catalyst for a better world while meeting both national and international goals.
This paper not only analyzes benefits to the U.S. economy, education, and industrial leadership, but also recommends that future national or international space endeavors emphasize a new beginning. Development dollars for new space exploration systems can be focused in part on world needs by utilizing technologies most likely to benefit the economy and aid in creating potential solutions to existing and future world problems. Space exploration can generate benefits of far greater value than its overall cost
Comments
Interstellar Initiatives
Session Chairman: Samuel T. Durrance, Center for Astrophysical Science, Johns Hopkins University
Session Organizer: Suzanne Hodge, Rockwell International Corp., Space Systems Division, Kennedy Space Center