Location
Holiday Inn, Manatee Rooms A & B
Start Date
28-4-1993 2:00 PM
End Date
28-4-1993 5:30 PM
Description
The International Space Year, 1992, was an ephemeral period that helped usher in a new exiting era in commercial space launch. This era will include further globalization of the industry, with sharply broadened international business relationships being established that wouldn't have been possible a few short years earlier. Greater cooperation is occurring among the nations of the world conducting space research and exploration. Former adversaries are now business partners. New technologies and smaller systems hold the promise of the economical proliferation of new commercial communications systems that will change our lives.
The key element in the discussion of promoting the U.S. commercial launch industry, is the need for change. Change is mandatory in our approach to industry regulation and oversight, change is clearly needed in our approach to planning and execution, change is required in our long term vision for the U.S. commercial space launch industry. The Clinton administration comes to the industry table with a mandate to change the way government does business and to break the commercial space policy grid-lock in Washington. The commercial space launch industry is a potential test case to invoke new economic theory, and reinvigorate a vital U.S. industrial base, before we succeed in exporting another high wage, high growth industry that the U.S. once lead.
Paper Session II-C - The U.S. Commercial Space Launch Industry: Responding to the Market
Holiday Inn, Manatee Rooms A & B
The International Space Year, 1992, was an ephemeral period that helped usher in a new exiting era in commercial space launch. This era will include further globalization of the industry, with sharply broadened international business relationships being established that wouldn't have been possible a few short years earlier. Greater cooperation is occurring among the nations of the world conducting space research and exploration. Former adversaries are now business partners. New technologies and smaller systems hold the promise of the economical proliferation of new commercial communications systems that will change our lives.
The key element in the discussion of promoting the U.S. commercial launch industry, is the need for change. Change is mandatory in our approach to industry regulation and oversight, change is clearly needed in our approach to planning and execution, change is required in our long term vision for the U.S. commercial space launch industry. The Clinton administration comes to the industry table with a mandate to change the way government does business and to break the commercial space policy grid-lock in Washington. The commercial space launch industry is a potential test case to invoke new economic theory, and reinvigorate a vital U.S. industrial base, before we succeed in exporting another high wage, high growth industry that the U.S. once lead.
Comments
Commercial Space Development
Session Chairman: John G. Mannix, Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property, NASA Headquarters
Session Organizer: Chris Cook, EG&G, Kennedy Space Center